Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

A section of Rhapta Road residents Friday launched an association to champion the community’s rights including in the battle against illegal and unauthorized high-rise developments. The residents said they suffered insecurity and water shortage in the area among others. They formed the Rhapta Road Residents Association to fight for their rights. They argued the current zoning classification of the area does not permit developments of more than 35 percent ground coverage and also restricts the number of floors in a building or the height. “I live on Mkoko Close which is not even a murram road and opposite me there…

A man convicted of being a member of a terror group will serve 10 years in prison after the High Court dismissed his appeal. Milimani High Court Judge Kanyi Kimondo threw out the case by Ismael Mona Otieno alias Dida Muhajir who sought to be acquitted of the charges on grounds that the prosecution illegally acquired the evidence used against him. He was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for the offence of being a member of an outlawed group. In his appeal, the accused person wanted the court to set aside the verdict by Senior Principal Magistrate…

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday said he “cannot in good conscience” endorse presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, a stunning repudiation of his former running mate and the president he served with. “Donald Trump is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years. That’s why I cannot in good conscience endorse Donald Trump in this campaign,” Pence said on Fox News. The former vice president, after ending his own presidential bid in October, withheld an endorsement in the 2024 Republican primary, but he previously vowed to back the eventual…

The first criminal trial against Donald Trump will be delayed until at least mid-April, a judge has decided. Mr Trump’s lawyers and the Manhattan district attorney both sought more time following the release of a new batch of documents in the hush-money case. The decision to move the trial from 25 March could push back the timeline for Mr Trump’s other criminal cases. He has sought to delay as many of his trials as possible while he runs again for the White House. The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, related to an alleged scheme to…

The High Court at Garsen Friday March 24 found two police officers guilty of murdering a camel herder in Tana River County six years ago. Justice Stephen Githinji said Police Constables, Emmanuel Wanje Mwaringa and Brian Otieno jointly murdered Abdullahi Hussein Omar on the 24th June, 2018 at Boka Market, Boka Township,within Tana River County. The two were charged with the offence of murder, contrary to Section 203 as read with Section 204 of the Penal Code, Cap. 63 of the Laws of Kenya. The Independent Policing Oversight Authority probed the murder incident after receiving a notification from the Officer…

Detectives are holding four members of a family of a village in Kilgoris, Narok County where two prison warders were lynched as they went to seek for money owed to them by their former boss. The incident happened Thursday March 14 morning in Tepesonik village in Transmara West, police said. Chief Inspector Patrick Mkhunyi Kuya and Sergeant Daniel Wairimu both from Nairobi Medium Prison Industrial Area had visited the home of a senior retired prisons officer to seek for payment of a debt he owed them. The two had told their colleagues they were going to the homestead of Pius…

Police were Friday granted an application to detain three suspects for 14 days in connection with the murder of a businessman during a scuffle in a club in Kisii Town. This is after businessman Jeremiah Mogaka Nyamweya, 37 succumbed to injuries he sustained during the scuffle on March 10. The incident happened at a popular club as a group fought over a woman, witnesses told police. The three, Innocent Ratemo alias Sokoro, Lucy Kemunto Kurura and Benson Nyagaka alias Mariachana were presented in court on Friday March 15 and police granted an application to detain them for 14 days as…

African Union Executive Council Friday unanimously adopted a critical decision that it is the turn of the Eastern Africa region to submit candidates for the position of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC).  The elections will be held in February 2025. Kenya praised the developments terming them a breakthrough in the quest to have former Prime Minister Raila Odinga be named the chair. “This is a major breakthrough for the Eastern Africa region to present candidates for the position of Chairperson of the AUC,” said Musalia Mudavadi, Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs.…

Murder convict Joseph Jowie Irungu Friday filed a notice of appeal against his conviction and death sentence over the murder of businesswoman Monica Kimani. “Take notice that Joseph Kuria Irungu alias Jowie appeals to the Court of Appeal against the decisions of the Honourable Lady Justice Grace Nzioka whereby the Appellant was convicted of Murder and sentenced to death on 13th March, 2024,” read the notice by his advocate Andrew Muge. The notice indicates that the appeal is against the conviction and sentence. Joseph Kuria Irungu alias Jowie was March 13 sentenced to death for the murder of Kimani in…

The US Embassy Friday March 15 warned its citizens of increased crime rates in Nairobi estates. In an advisory the Embassy warned its citizens residing in Nairobi to take caution even as they go about their business. “There are reports of increased criminal activity in residential areas of Nairobi,” the Embassy said. “Incidents include crimes of opportunity such as purse and phone snatching,” the advisory reads. The Embassy, however, noted the Kenya government is taking measures to deploy more police in high crime areas. Police however said the advisory is uncalled for adding they had taken various measures to address…

Multi agency teams are investigating an incident in which a businessman was brutally shot and killed outside his shop in Bura East, Garissa County. The businessman was shot at close range in the head and died on the spot in the March 13 incident, police said. The motive of the shooting of Denis Mawira Kiambi, 31 is suspected to be business rivalry, police said. Police said the deceased was seated outside his shop in Dar es Salaam area when three gunmen appeared at about 8 pm. Without any provocation, one of the gunmen pulled the trigger hitting the man in…

A Nairobi-based businessman is nursing wounds in hospital after he was roughed up by a group of mourners at a charged funeral event in Kajuok village, Siaya County. Police said Leonard Ochieng Nyapere is a licensed gun holder. He was attending a funeral event of his sister-in-law on March 12 when a commotion broke out, police and witnesses said. This forced Nyapere to reach out for his firearm and fired two rounds of 9mm to the air to scare a surging mob. He was armed with a Glock Austria. He said he did this in self-defense from members of the…

18 Ethiopians were Thursday arrested in a village in Wajir for being in the country. They were arrested in Korondile Township days after they had arrived there from the Kenya-Ethiopia border. They told police they had been ferried there by a smuggler who was to pick them for Nairobi and later to Tanzania and South Africa. The group said they are looking for jobs in South Africa. They were all men over 18, police said. They were Friday March 15 expected in court where police planned to ask for permission to repatriate them to their country. This is the latest…

President William Ruto once again committed to send Kenyan police to Haiti to help contain violence there. Ruto Thursday held telephone conversations with Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of The Bahamas Philip Davis, representing the Caribbean Community and Common Market as well as Haiti’s outgoing Prime Minister Ariel Henry. This was in regard to ongoing violence in Haiti in the wake of the resignation of Henry as the prime minister. “During our discussions, I conveyed our unwavering commitment to supporting Haiti, emphasising that they are our brothers and sisters.” “I assured them that we will remain actively involved…

A high court in Japan on Thursday said the country’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.  This is a matter that has divided lower levels of the judiciary and put the conservative government at odds with shifting public opinion. Japan is the only member of the Group of Seven industrialised nations that doesn’t offer legal protection for same-sex unions. Rights groups say the omission is discriminatory and hurts its appeal as a global business centre. Although polls show 70% of public support for same-sex unions, they are opposed by the Liberal Democratic Party of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Japanese civil…