Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

A 27-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing his wife at her parents’ home in Kipsolu, Kericho County over a marital dispute. Police said the incident happened Friday January 26. The suspect had travelled from Borborwet to his wife’s home to sort out their domestic issues. The deceased wife identified as Lonah Chepkemoi, had left the suspect’s home to her home after a disagreement. This forced the suspect to follow the now deceased woman to her parents’ home to sort out their domestic issues. In the process, a quarrel broke out between them and the man stabbed Chepkemoi on the…

The national electoral body has gazetted 13 new nominated Members of County Assembly (MCA) for UDA party at the Uasin Gishu County Assembly. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission at the same time degazetted 13 others who have been serving as MCAs but lost a court battle over the nomination slots. The move by the IEBC follows an order by High Court Judge Reuben Nyakundi. Nyakundi last Thursday ordered the IEBC Chief Executive Officer Marjan Hussein Marjan to gazette the new MCAs within 14 days. In a gazette notice dated January 24 those gazetted as new MCAs at the assembly…

A widow has won a court battle to bury her late husband at their Kamulu home, Nairobi.  Unlike what happened in 1987 in a case pitting Wambui Otieno against her husband’s clan, Umira Kager, over the burial of Silvano Melea Otieno, popularly known as S.M. Otieno, this time the widow got her wish. The body of Naftali Onderi Ontweka, a former Bomachoge aspirant has been lying at Lee Funeral Home since April 2023. And after months of court battles, the remains of Onderi will be buried at his Kamulu home after the Court of Appeal granted the widow- Zipporah Masese…

Three students were Friday arrested in connection with the murder of Kabarak University nursing student, police said.  Police have also established slain student Derrick Malumasa Sabuni, 23 may have not been killed at the site where his body was found on Friday morning. The motive of the murder is yet to be known. The deceased was a nursing student, police and colleagues said. The third-year student was found with stab wounds in the stomach along the Nakuru-Mogotio road near Kampi Ya Moto trading centre. Detectives revisited the scene where the body was found and established that the deceased may have…

Police Friday recovered the vehicle that was used to abduct the late Daniel Muthiani Benard alias Sniper and later dispose his body at Mutonga River in Chiakariga area of Tharaka Nithi.  The murder happened on December 2, 2023. The identification and subsequent recovery of the vehicle, a silver Toyota Premio followed thorough forensic analysis of crucial leads, which pointed to a residential place at Canopy area of Kithoka, Meru county. In the latest establishments, the investigating team has identified Vincent Mureithi Kirimi alias Supuu as the driver who hired the vehicle on the date of abduction and gruesome murder of…

Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen wants the introduction of toll stations on six major highways in the country.  This will help in raising funds for the construction and rehabilitation of roads countrywide. Speaking on Friday during the launch of the Kenya National Highway Authority (KeNHA) 2023-2027 Strategic Plan, Murkomen emphasised the government’s commitment to raising alternative funds for the improvement of road networks across the country. He said that Athi River-Namanga Road and Galleria-Rongai-Ngong-Karen Shopping Centre are on target. Other roads included Mombasa to Malaba, Corridor C and D roads which are Museum Hill-Moyale and Sirare- Lodwar respectively and Kiambu…

A New York jury decided Donald Trump should pay $83.3m (Sh13 billion) for defaming columnist E Jean Carroll in 2019 while he was US president. The jury’s penalty in the civil trial is made up of $18.3m for compensatory damages and $65m in punitive damages. Mr Trump was found in a previous civil case to have defamed Ms Carroll and sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. He vowed to appeal the latest ruling, calling the case a witch hunt and the verdict “Absolutely ridiculous!” The compensatory damages are meant to account for the harm that the jury found his comments…

The US government approved the $23bn (£18bn) sale of 40 new F-16 fighter jets to Turkey – a move that had been long delayed – after Ankara ratified Sweden’s accession to Nato. The deal includes modernisation kits for 79 existing Turkish F-16s. The US State Department told Congress it had also approved the sale of 40 F-35 fighters to Greece, costing $8.6bn. Turkey ratified Sweden’s Nato accession after more than a year of delay that caused tension in the alliance. It first made the request for the jets in 2021, but its delay in ratifying Sweden’s Nato bid proved to…

The World Court on Friday ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide as it wages war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, but it stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire. Ruling on a case brought by South Africa, the court said Israel must ensure its forces did not commit genocide and take measures to improve the humanitarian situation for Palestinian civilians in the enclave. In the ruling, 15 of the 17 judges on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) panel voted for emergency measures which covered most of what South African asked for, with…

The government has declared that it will challenge a High Court ruling barring the deployment of Kenya Police to Haiti for the Multi-national Security Support (MSS) mission. Government spokesperson Isaac Mwaura said that the government respects the rule of law but noted that Kenya has a “track-record of contributing to peace keeping missions internationally”. “The government reiterates its commitment in honoring its international obligations as a member of the community and comity of nations,” he said. Earlier, Justice Chacha Mwita said the National Security Council, which includes the President, does not have the powers to deploy regular police outside of…

President William Ruto says his government will appeal a ruling declaring the housing levy unconstitutional. Speaking in Meru on Friday, the head of state said the affordable housing project was meant to create employment for the youth. “We are going to appeal the decision. We will make the requisite law so that our agenda to create employment for jobless youths who have finished school but have nowhere to go is realized through the housing projects,” Dr Ruto said. “It is the first time in the Republic of Kenya that we have an administration that has a clear and demonstrable plan…

Demeke Mekonnen, Ethiopia’s long-serving Deputy Prime Minister, who also doubles as Minister of Foreign Affairs since November 2020, is departing from both positions, officials said.  The Central Committee of Prosperity Party, during its wrapping up session, based on party’s leadership succession principle and working system also formally bid farewell to Demeke unanimously on Friday January 26. In replacement of Demeke, the Party unanimously elected Temesgen Tiruneh as Deputy President of Prosperity Party who was a member of the party’s executive committee. Tiruneh is also the Director General of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS). Demeke was the third vice…

The High Court has once again rescheduled the verdict for the case involving Joseph Irungu alias Jowie and former Citizen TV news anchor Jacque Maribe. The two are accused of killing Monica Kimani in 2018. The court will deliver the verdict on March 15, 2024. The court heard that Maribe was taken ill earlier this morning and will be better in a week’s time. Her lawyer, Katwa Kigen explained that the nature of her ailment was confidential but state prosecutor is Gakoe Gichuhi demanded that they be furnished with the papers. She did not object to the adjournment saying sickness…

The Court of Appeal on Friday declared the Housing Levy unconstitutional. The appellate court dismissed the State’s applications seeking a stay of execution for the judgment that found the Housing Levy to be unconstitutional. The judges; Lydia Achode, John Mativo and Mwaniki Gachoka, said that if they affirm the constitutional invalidity of the challenged laws, then some far-reaching decisions that will have been undertaken may not be reversed. Additionally, it terminated the deduction of charges following the government’s window of opportunity to collect the funds, which closed on January 26. Read: Blow to Kenyans As Court of Appeal Allows Gov’t to…

Police are investigating two separate incidents of drowning involving two children in Kirinyaga and Makueni Counties. The first incident happened in Salama village, Kibwezi where primary school children ventured into a dam to swim. It was then a boy aged 11 drowned in the water. Police said efforts to help the boy were futile. The body was moved to Kibwezi Funeral Home. Elsewhere, a five-year-old boy drowned in a pool of water at a quarry in Mwea East, Kirinyaga County. The boy was playing with two of his friends at the quarry water when he drowned on January 24 at…