Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Activist Boniface Mwangi was Sunday traced to a police station hours after he was picked by police from his Machakos home. He was traced to Kamukunji police station in Nairobi where he had been detained. This was almost 50 kilometers from where he had been picked up by six men. His family and friends had been worried about his whereabouts for hours before they found him at the police station. His wife Njeri Mwangi who traced the activist to the station said police had accused him of inciting the public to cause violence. “They are holding him over claims of…

Homicide detectives who are pursuing the gruesome murders of three family members – a mother, daughter and 12-year-old niece – have identified the prime suspect in the monstrous killings. The detectives say Hashim Dagane Muhumed is wanted for grilling over the murder. He comes from Garissa and is on the run. He abandoned his car in Nairobi and escaped and has been traced to Ijara, Garissa County. He could also be in Nairobi or any other part of the country, police said. Investigations conducted so far have established that Hashim Dagane, 24, was driving the Nissan Note (Reg No. KDQ…

Activist Boniface Mwangi was Sunday abducted by unknown persons from his Machakos home. This came ahead of his planned protests at the Standard Chartered marathon, taking place on Sunday October 27. “Will you show up to cheer friends at the Standard Chartered marathon? You are a crucial part of the race, your cheering will motivate and energise the athletes and help reform our country in the process.” “This is how; adorn the national flag as part of your sports gear, wear hats with the national colours, wear a bandana with the message RutoMustGo, record protest chants and share online and…

In her first appearance on the campaign trail alongside Vice-President Kamala Harris, former First Lady Michelle Obama urged Americans to cast their votes to protect the country from the “dangers” of Donald Trump. In a fiery speech in Michigan – a key battleground state – Obama said the election was “too close” for her liking. At another event in Michigan, Donald Trump vowed to breathe fresh life into the state’s automotive industry and met with Arab-Americans he said could “turn the election”. Polls show the two locked in a tight race in Michigan, with Harris holding an extremely narrow lead…

A month-long Vatican summit has ended with a call for women to have more leadership roles in the Catholic Church, but not a call for women to be ordained as priests, as some progressives had hoped at the start of the process. The synod was the end of a four-year consultation aimed at gauging the views of every church-going Catholic globally, and Pope Francis opened up what is usually a bishops conference to some lay people, including nearly 60 women of 368 voting delegates. All of the synod members voted on each of 151 proposals. Although all proposals were passed…

Title rivals Max Verstappen and Lando Norris start Sunday’s Mexico City Grand Prix from second and third on the grid behind Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz. Verstappen heads into the race 57 points clear of Norris, who needs to gain on the Red Bull driver by an average of just under 12 points a race to overtake him in the remaining five grands prix. Norris qualified his McLaren just 0.089 seconds slower than Verstappen, but Sainz was in a league of his own, on pole by 0.225secs from the Dutchman to underline Ferrari’s surge in form over the last few races. The…

Robert Lewandowski scored twice in three minutes as La Liga leaders Barcelona thrashed Real Madrid in El Clasico to move six points clear of their rivals. Real were looking to extend their run of unbeaten games to 43 in the league, which would have equalled the record set by Barcelona between April 2017 and May 2018. But their hopes of doing that were quashed by a devastating second-half display by their opponents at the Bernabeu. “It’s a hard moment, a tough moment when you lose a game, [especially after] so many unbeaten,” said Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti. After a goalless…

President William Ruto appointed former Starehe MP Margaret Wanjiru as the chairperson of the Nairobi Rivers Commission. The president also appointed former nominated senator Millicent Omanga a member of the commission even as he moved the commission from the office of the president to the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development. Both Omanga and Wanjiru were initially appointed Chief Administrative Secretaries in the miniseries of Interior and Cooperatives respectively before the course declared the CAS positions null and void. President Ruto made the appointments through a Gazette Notice dated October 25, 2024. Consequently, Ruto fired Pamela Olet who has been…

The National Environment Management Authority of Kenya (NEMA) issued strict directives to the construction firms in Nairobi and other parts of the country. In a statement published on its X account on Thursday, October 24, 2024, after the Nema environmental inspectors undertook surveillance on night construction, the authority cautioned firms against constructing buildings at night, stating that any construction is supposed to stop at 6 pm. The authority also stated that construction is not to be done on weekends, adding that developers should adhere to their license conditions. “Surveillance on night constructions was also undertaken to ensure that developments adhere…

There was drama along Bunyala Road in Nairobi when a senior policeman on leave was arrested while controlling traffic flow. The inspector of police is attached to Mavindini Police Station in Kathonzweni sub-county within Makueni County as a deputy Officer Commanding Station (OCS). He had been on leave for five days from October 18, 2024. Still, he was arrested on October 23 2024 while performing traffic duties at Bunyala roundabout in Makadara Sub-county within Nairobi County by police officers from Industrial Area police station while in full Persian blue uniform. He was also armed with a communication gadget belonging Tourist…

A body of a man was found within City Park Forest, Nairobi after suspected murder. The victim is believed to have been strangled at the site and the body abandoned there. Forest guards manning the area found the decomposing and mutilated of an unidentified man aged about 35. The body was naked and had a manila rope around the neck. Police said beside the body were personal items and women’s clothes. The body was moved to the mortuary pending identification and autopsy. Police said they are investigating the murder. In Likoni area in the Indian Ocean, the body of one…

Moves by major U.S. fast-food chains to temporarily pull fresh onions off their menus on Thursday, after the vegetable was named as the likely source of an E. coli outbreak at McDonald’s, laid bare the recurring nightmare for restaurants: Produce is a bigger problem for restaurants to keep free of contamination than beef. Onions are likely the culprit in the McDonald’s E. coli outbreak across the Midwest and some Western states that has sickened at least 75 people and killed one. McDonald’s pulled the Quarter Pounder off its menu at one-fifth of its 14,000 U.S. restaurants. Of the 61 people…

Superstar Beyoncé provided the latest shot of stardust to Kamala Harris’s White House campaign on Friday, as the vice president and rival Donald Trump courted voters with just 11 days to go in a neck-and-neck election. Taking the stage with her Destiny’s Child co-star Kelly Rowland, the Grammy-winning diva introduced Harris to over 20,000 roaring supporters in the Texas metropolis of Houston, Beyoncé’s hometown. “It’s time for America to sing a new song,” Beyoncé said, urging voters to show up. While the superstar did not perform any hits, her presence brought even more attention to Harris’s rally, which focused on…

Amsons Group, the Tanzanian business conglomerate, has started its marketing campaign to secure the support of Bamburi Cement (NSE: BAMB) shareholders following the release of a shareholder circular Thursday. The Amsons Group bid is fully financially backed by KCB Bank and secured by a US $5.3 million break fee held in an escrow account at ABSA Kenya. This is a first in the Kenyan capital markets scene and a demonstration of the seriousness of the AmsonsGroup’s take-over offer. Through its Kenyan subsidiary and investment vehicle, Amsons Industries (K) Ltd, Amsons intends to invest more than Ksh 23.5 billion to acquire…

A businessman was Friday detained for five days in a probe into fake macadamia deal. A Milimani court granted the state five days to detain businessman Hussein Sheikh Abdullahi to enable the completion of ongoing investigations. This followed a request by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), which argued that further time was needed to record statements from key witnesses. The investigating officer told trial magistrate Dolphin Alego they needed additional time to conduct a forensic examination of the accused’s mobile phone among other issues. This is in relation to a fake macadamia deal he had entered…