Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Over 500 victims have come out seeking justice alleging to have been defrauded of their hard-earned money in a land fraud scheme orchestrated by Lesedi Developers Limited. The land selling company has in the past gotten into headwinds with detectives from the Land Fraud Investigation Unit in a case where 360 complainants reported that Geoffrey Kahungi Kiragu, the Director of Lesedi Developers Limited, deceived them into paying for land parcels that he claimed could be transferred from a legitimate title deed in Thika Municipality Block 40/2414. Each plot measured 40 by 80 feet and was priced at Sh350,000, police investigations…

Pop star Katy Perry will blast off into space as part of an upcoming all-women flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepherd rocket. The Firework singer will be joined by Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos’s fiancee Lauren Sanchez, CBS presenter Gayle King, former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn. Blue Origin said this is the first all-women space flight to take place since the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova’s solo mission in 1963. There is no specific date for the launch, but Blue Origin said it would take place this spring. Katy Perry…

Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kipchumba Murkomen reiterated his call for calm and patience as the search and rescue of missing Kenyan fishermen gets underway following last Saturday attack in Todonyang, Kenya Ethiopia border. He confirmed that an autopsy was done on the two bodies and buried Thursday. Murkomen traced the genesis of the current situation to a suspected criminal from Kenya who killed three on the Ethiopian side, triggering a retaliatory attack. “On Saturday, in unfortunate incident, there was a rogue Kenyan who went to cause problems in the Ethiopian side from Kenya and the information we have now is…

Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen Thursday lauded the rigorous investigations undertaken by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) which has led to the unraveling of complex cases. Murkomen, who made his inaugural visit to DCI headquarters, appreciated the complexity of the emerging crime trends, assuring the officers of the government’s commitment to the modernization of its operations. Speaking to journalists after touring the National Forensic laboratory, Murkomen affirmed the government’s pledge to properly tool the officers with the latest technology and specialized training to be able to unravel complex criminal cases. “I am happy with the work…

The Council of Governors (CoG) came out in defense of Nairobi County government in the mounting tensions between county governments and the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC). This comes in the wake of remarks made by members of the National Assembly regarding the allocation of the Roads Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF). The CoG expressed concern about what it termed KPLC’s history of unexpected and unchecked power outages, which have severely disrupted critical county services. According to the CoG, over the last decade, KPLC has repeatedly cut power to critical public institutions such as hospitals, water installations, and sewerage services.…

The U.S. Justice Department hopes to release on Thursday flight logs and “a lot of names” related to Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier accused of sex trafficking who socialized with Wall Street titans, royalty and celebrities, Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Wednesday. “I think tomorrow … you’re going to see some Epstein information being released by my office,” Bondi told Fox News. She said her department was working on protecting the personal information of over 250 victims connected to Epstein, who took his own life in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. Bondi said she hoped to…

Oscar-winning US actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa have been found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In a career that spanned more than six decades, he received two Academy Awards, two Baftas, four Golden Globes and a Screen Actors Guild Award. A statement from the Santa Fe County Sheriff in New Mexico said: “We can confirm that both Gene Hackman and his wife were found deceased Wednesday afternoon at their residence on Sunset Trail. “This is an active investigation – however, at this time we do not believe that foul play was a factor.”…

Two people were arrested at a city club as the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) intensified its crackdown on shisha dens. The two were arrested on Wednesday February 26 night after NACADA’s enforcement officers raided Paris Lounge in Lang’ata in Nairobi and confiscated a large consignment of shisha products. During the raid, NACADA officers seized 39 shisha bongs, 11 cartons of charcoal, 12 cartons of assorted flavours, and 13 charcoal carriers. Two individuals, a shisha seller and a supervisor, were arrested. The operation will continue to other joints. The enforcement operation was led by…

A police officer was shot and killed in an attack by two gunmen in Mandera Town, Mandera County. Corporal Hassan Omar, 55 was on patrol in the area near Taqwa Mosque when two gunmen confronted him on February 25, police said. The gunmen shot him twice in the head, killing him on the spot. They escaped towards the nearby Kenya-Somalia border without stealing anything from him. Police responded to the scene and found the lifeless body of the officer lying on the ground with his AK47 rifle that had 80 bullets next to it. The motive of the attack is…

Investigators hope to conduct an autopsy on the body of slain British businessman Campbell Scott on Thursday February 27. The exercise was postponed twice as the team waited for the arrival of Scott’s family. Officials said the family arrived on Wednesday and was briefed on the status of the case ahead of the planned autopsy in Makueni. The findings will form the basis of the police probe. Even though police said they are investigating murder, they are so far yet to know how Scott died. The team said they believe he was strangled and hit by a blunt object on…

South Africa completed Wednesday the evacuation of 127 troops from the front lines of the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, four of whom were critically wounded, the military said. Twenty-one soldiers returned Tuesday and 106 more on Wednesday, South Africa National Defence Force (SANDF) spokesman Prince Tshabalala said. They were part of a mission deployed by the 16-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) bloc in 2023 to support the DRC government in the east, where the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has made significant territorial gains. “We have admitted four patients (who are) critical,” Tshabalala said. Seventeen others had…

Donald Trump held his first cabinet meeting at the White House on Wednesday, turning the occasion into an extended question-and-answer session that lasted for more than an hour. Speaking alongside his cabinet – and billionaire Elon Musk who wore a “tech support” T-shirt – Trump covered a wide range of topics, ranging from Doge’s efforts to cut government spending to immigration, the economy and the war in Ukraine. Here are a five takeaways from his remarks. 1) Trump praises Rubio and Musk Trump was asked by reporters which government department – and, by extension, which cabinet members – were most…

Nvidia, the chip giant at the heart of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, said business remained strong, despite fears of a bubble stirred by the launch of Chinese AI firm DeepSeek’s launch on the scene last month. Sales of the firm’s chips hit more than $39bn (£30.7bn) over the three months ended 27 January, up 74% year-on-year. Nvidia has seen a surge of demand, as big tech companies turn to the firm for chips that can handle the large amounts of data used to train AI models. But DeepSeek said it had trained its chatbot using less advanced, and less…

Instagram is reportedly considering launching its short-form video feature, Reels, as a separate app as the future of Chinese-owned TikTok remains uncertain in the US. The social media platform’s boss Adam Mosseri told staff about the potential move this week, according to technology industry–focused business publication The Information, which cited a person who heard the remarks. Instagram’s parent company Meta did not immediately respond to a BBC request for comment. In January, US President Donald Trump granted TikTok a 75-day extension to comply with a law signed by then-President Joe Biden that requires a sale or ban of the platform.…

An American national working as a state government contractor admitted in court to being found with four cocaine pellets in his stomach while attempting to leave Kenya. Jarod Tyler Roberts, who resides in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, told the court at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport that he had purchased the drugs for personal use while on holiday in Kenya but decided to take the remaining three pellets back to Saudi Arabia before his departure. In court, Roberts expressed deep remorse for violating Kenyan laws and requested leniency. He said an imprisonment sentence could severely impact his career. His parents, particularly…