Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Police in Keiyo South are investigating the circumstances surrounding the abandonment of 500 boxes of government textbooks for Junior Secondary School in a forest.  The textbooks, intended for Nyamira North and Nyamira South, Nyamira County were discovered discarded along the Kaptagat-Kaptarakwa Marum Road inside Kaptagat Forest on Saturday, January 20, 2024. Nyamira and Elgeyo Marakwet are almost 300 kilometers apart. Preliminary findings indicate a potential hijacking scenario, where the perpetrators seized control of the vehicle transporting the textbooks, police said. According to police, the hijackers unloaded the educational materials along the roadside and made off with the vehicle. Authorities are…

A police officer was arrested in a probe into alleged suicide incident in Lang’ata area, Nairobi.  Police arrested a General Service Unit (GSU) officer in the probe into alleged suicide incident that happened on January 11 at an apartment in Lang’ata, police said. This is after he was suspected to be involved in an alleged suicide incident involving a 28-year-old woman. The constable stationed at the GSU’s Ruaraka headquarters, was apprehended by Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) detectives on Thursday January 18 after a forensic analysis of the victim’s phone suggested his potential presence during Nelvin Museti’s death. Police and…

Police have arrested 20 people believed to have been involved in an incident where a car was stoned in Kitengela after it hit a pedestrian. The suspects who consist of bodaboda riders are being held at Kitengela police station. “The following twenty persons have been arrested to be charged for the offence of malicious damage and assault,” the police OB. NO. 61/19/01/2024 reads. It adds: “Twenty persons have been arrested and twenty-six motorbikes detained at the police station.” The following persons have been arrested: 1.⁠ ⁠Benson Kiyai 2.⁠ ⁠Gabriel Kinyua 3.⁠ ⁠Alex Mureithi 4.⁠ ⁠Mutuku Kasyoka 5.⁠ ⁠Stephen Mutinda 6.⁠…

National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung’u has denied that the government-to-government oil agreement with Saudi Arabia was a flop. On Friday, CS Ndung’u criticized the media for what he claimed was a distortion of the facts as he attempted to clarify the passage taken from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) report. He said they did not admit to the failure of the arrangement, but that their statement to the IMF “specifically addresses the anticipated rollover risk associated with private sector financing facilities supporting the arrangement.” “It is imperative to set the record straight on the nature and purpose of the…

Video footage released by an organisation that works with North Korean defectors shows North Korean authorities publicly sentencing two teenagers to 12 years of hard labour for watching K-pop. The footage, which shows the two 16-year-olds in Pyongyang convicted of watching South Korean movies and music videos, was released by the South and North Development (SAND) Institute. Reuters was unable to independently verify the footage, which was first reported by the BBC. North Korea has for years imposed tough sentences on anyone caught enjoying South Korean entertainment or copying the way South Koreans speak in a war on outside influences…

Madonna is being called to task by a pair of ticketholders for exhibiting ‘flippant difficulty’ in starting her recent string of Brooklyn “Celebration Tour” concerts on time, court records show. A new lawsuit against the entertainer filed Wednesday in New York, and obtained by CNN on Thursday, accuses her of false advertising and negligent misrepresentation after the singer started her concerts at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center last month after 10:30 pm on all three nights, when the tickets advertised that the shows would start at 8:30 pm. The suit claims that most concertgoers left the venue after 1 am each night,…

Former Nation Media Group’s Editor-in-Chief and Executive Director Tom Mshindi has been appointed as the chairperson of the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) board. In a gazette notice dated January 19, Mshindi will serve for a period of three years effective immediately. President William Ruto revoked the appointment of Benjamin Maingi. Mshindi retired from the NMG after 24 years in 2018. “The board notes with appreciation that he has been a key player as the company embarked on its transformation journey to transition from a purely legacy platform media house into an online first digital content company of the 21st century,”…

Three former government officials and two businessmen who faced fraud charges in the Angloleasing case were Friday acquitted for lack of evidence. A trial in Nairobi court vindicated Dave Mwangi, Joseph Magari, Joseph Onyonka, businessmen Deepak and Rashmi Kamani declaring they were “innocent” and were charged irregularly. “Having examined the evidence presented in court, I have concluded that the prosecution has failed to prove a case against the accused warranting to put them om their defence and therefore acquit them fir lack of evidence,” chief magistrate Felix Kombo ruled Friday. The magistrate said there were glaring contradictions and inconsistencies in…

The Presidential Working Party’s report on reforms in the education sector has been rejected by the Council of Governors (CoG). CoG chair Ann Waiguru stated in a statement on Friday that the Council acknowledges education’s significance as a major factor in socioeconomic development. She continued by saying that the Council supports initiatives meant to enhance the educational system. “We wish to acknowledge the tremendous efforts by Counties in transforming the devolved education functions assigned to them by the Constitution,” she said. “Having gone through the full report, its recommendations and the negative impact it possesses on Devolution, we reject the…

Cori Broadus, the daughter of rapper and actor Snoop Dogg and his wife, Shante Taylor Broadus, revealed on social media Thursday that she suffered a “severe stroke.” Broadus, 24, shared the message in an Instagram story. “I had a severe stroke this am,” read the post, including two teary-eyed emojis. “I started breaking down crying when they told me,” the caption concluded. Broadus posted another image on her Instagram story afterwards. “Like I’m only 24 what did I do in my past to deserve all of this,” read the caption on the second photo. “Each year, 10% to 15% of…

Retired president Uhuru Kenyatta and Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka arrived in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Friday for the Inauguration Ceremony of President Felix Tshisekedi. It is not however clear if president William Ruto will fly to Kinshasa to attend the inauguration of president who is set to be inaugurated for a new term as president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after the constitutional court confirmed his victory in last month’s election. Uhuru is a close ally of Tshisekedi and was the only president who attended his first inauguration. The second inauguration takes place in Kinshasa on…

Mystery surrounds the move by the killer of university student Rita Waeni Muendo whose body was found in a dustbin in Roysambu to clip off her fingernails.  A postmortem conducted on the body on Friday showed she had missing nails. “This person who did all these also tried to clip off the fingernails for reasons which I might not be able to know but for us scientists when we see fingernails clipped off, we think probably the person was trying to hide evidence so that we are unable to get his DNA from the victim,” government pathologist Johansen Oduor told…

Police in Fort Worth, Texas are holding a 27-year-old Kenyan man who is reported to have killed a delivery truck driver by repeatedly striking him on the head with firewood. Christantus Omondi is facing a murder charge in the beating death of a man delivering firewood Saturday January 13 night in Fort Worth. Court documents show Scotty Jackson was dropping off a load of firewood to a customer on Wendover Drive. Investigators said the nude 27-year-old suspect hit Jackson in the head with a piece of the firewood and then hit the homeowner. Fort Worth Police said the homeowner ran…

The Court of Appeal has lifted orders suspending the implementation of the Social Health Insurance Act which is set to replace the NHIF Act. In their verdict delivered on Friday, Justices Patrick Kiage, Pauline Nyamweya and Grace Ngenye ruled that owing to the suspension of the roll-out of the new health fund, there is “a real and present danger to the health rights of countless citizens who are not parties to the litigation pending before our courts.” “We are persuaded that the confusion, the lacuna and the risk and harm to citizens pending the hearing and determination of the appeal…

Mobile network operators Telkom Kenya and Airtel Kenya have received warnings from the Communication Authority of Kenya (CA) over subpar services. According to CA’s assessment of mobile network operators’ quality-of-service performance for 2022–2023, the two companies fell short of their coverage goals. “Airtel Networks Kenya Limited and Telkom Kenya failed to not only meet their coverage targets but also several most critical Quality of Service Key Performance Indicators particularly the ‘unsuccessful call ratio’ and Data Internet KPIs which are indicators for coverage and internet accessibility,” the report reads in part. According to the report, Safaricom achieved 90% of the Key…