Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Police are investigating an incident in which a passenger train hit and killed a man in Kiandutu area, Thika Town. The body of the man was discovered on Thursday evening minutes after the train had killed him, police said. The train was delivering passengers to the area from Nairobi when the incident happened. The body was removed to the General Kago mortuary pending identification and autopsy. Such accidents are common on the railway line amid calls for caution from all parties to contain the trend. Some of them are out of suicide mission, officials say adding they cannot contain them.

Al Shabaab militants shot and killed a 13-year-old boy in an attack on a car in Hagadera area, Garissa County. This is the latest incident to happen in the area and seems to be targeting locals. There is little help from locals to tame the terrorists who are now roaming most parts of the region, officials say. The incident happened on Wednesday evening as the deceased and four others were headed for Hagadera from Hamey when they were attacked. Gunmen who were on the road in Omar Mathahey area opened fire and hit the boy in the right hip killing…

Ex-Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is to be freed on parole from a South African jail, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He shot her multiple times through a bathroom door in 2013, later saying he mistook her for a burglar. Pistorius, now 37, was eventually convicted of murder in 2015 after an appeal court overturned an earlier verdict of culpable homicide. He will live under strict conditions until his sentence expires in 2029. Under South African law, all offenders are entitled to be considered for parole once they have served half their total sentence, which for Pistorius was…

Sudan recalled its ambassador from Nairobi Thursday in protest at President William Ruto’s hosting of talks with paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, its acting foreign minister said. Daglo, whose forces have been at war with the regular army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan since April, has been touring African capitals on his first visit abroad of the conflict. He already visited Uganda, Ethiopia and Djibouti as well as Kenya and is currently in South Africa, to the anger of Burhan, whose administration has lost ground to the paramilitaries in recent months and is eager to deny them international legitimacy. In…

A student shot six people, one of them fatally, at a high school in the US state of Iowa before taking his own life on the first day back from holiday break, police said. A “pretty rudimentary” improvised explosive device was found by investigators at Perry High School, police said, and rendered safe. Five of those shot were students and one is a school administrator. The student that died was in sixth-grade, which is for 11 or 12-year-olds. Reports of an active shooter came in at 07:37 local time (13:37 GMT) and the first officer reached the scene within minutes,…

A section of bodaboda operators sued the Kenya Kwanza government for allegedly leaving them out of their plans. The riders argue that during the period leading the 2022 General Election the Ruto administration ran a campaign that was majorly centered around the empowerment and uplifting of the lives of the persons engaged in boda boda and Mama Mboga business. The petitioners say there is a depreciation of the earnings of the persons in the boda boda sector of about 32 percent due to the use of the term by Kenya Kwanza which translates to about Sh426 billion. The riders the…

A Nyeri Employment and Labour Court on December 20 declared the double employment of a public officer irregular and unlawful. This was seen as a landmark ruling that will affect dozens of public officers holding more than one job in the civil service. Justice Onesmus Makau delivered the ruling on a case filed by Agnes Wanjiru, a lecturer at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and who worked as a part-time board member at Kirinyaga County Assembly Service Board between 2017 and 2022. Justice Makau ruled that Wanjiru was not eligible for appointment as a part-time member of the…

Following the recovery of 252 bags of suspected stolen government fertilizer at a Narok Church hall Wednesday, a male suspect was Thursday arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts charged with conveying suspected stolen property. Robert Kipng’etich Bett alias Raphael who alleged to be a farm manager employed by a Kericho-based businessman Joseph Kiplangat Keter was arrested at Ololulunga in Narok South, being the custodian of the fertilizer found stored at the Grace Covenant Church. The second suspect alleged to have bought the fertilizer from a renowned dealer operating within the North Rift region and who has several previous cases. As…

An intelligence-led operation conducted by the Operations Support Unit (OSU) detectives to nab cartels selling contraband milk powder has led to the seizure of over 32.5 tonnes of the same at a godown located along the Eastern Bypass, Nairobi.  In the sting operation on Thursday January 4, an unsuspecting known broker in Eastleigh by the name Ali Noor directed an undercover hawkshaw to Kamakis area along Eastern Bypass, after he (officer) posed as a potential buyer. On arrival, a Mitsubishi truck loaded with an agreed 150 bags each weighing 25 kilograms arrived. According to police, the agreed price was Sh16,500…

The Court of Appeal has allowed the government to continue collecting housing levy from salaried Kenyans. The court will issue further directions on the matter on January 26. The three-judge bench ordered that the status quo remains until it rules on Attorney General Justin Muturi’s application on collection the controversial levy. Read: Finance Act: Court Declares Housing Levy Unconstitutional, Discriminatory Last year, Justices David Majanja, Christine Meoli and Lawrence Mugambi found that Section 84 of the Finance Act amending the Employment Act introducing the Housing Levy was unconstitutional. The bench ruled that the levy lacked a comprehensive legal framework and was…

Microsoft has announced the biggest change to its keyboards in three decades with the introduction of an artificial intelligence (AI) key. The key will allow users to access Copilot, Microsoft’s AI tool, on new Windows 11 PCs. Microsoft is a major investor in OpenAI, which powers Copilot’s AI capabilities. It integrated AI into other products such as Microsoft 365 and Bing search in 2023. Rival Apple has included a Siri button or option on its touch bar in Macbooks for a few years. Copilot helps users with functions such as searching, writing emails and creating images. In a blog announcing the change,…

All passengers coming into the country will be subjected to advance screening using the Electronic Travel Authorization if proposed amendments to the law are enacted. The Ministry of Interior has proposed a Bill, The Kenya Citizenship and Immigration (Amendment) Regulations, 2023 that seeks to amend the principal regulations by introducing advance passenger information (API) and to secure the data. According to the Bill, API means the biographic data of a passenger or crew member and the flight details of an aircraft operator and other relevant details, against security databases before they even arrive in the country. The regulations and changes…

The Federal Government of Nigeria said Wednesday it will extend the suspension of accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates to include those from Kenya, the Niger Republic, and Uganda. Speaking during an interview on Channels Television, Nigeria’s Education Minister, Tahir Mamman, said the security agents would go after those with fake certificates from foreign countries already using them to secure jobs in Nigeria. “We are not going to stop at just Benin and Togo. We are going to extend the dragnet to countries like Uganda, Kenya, and even Niger here where such institutions have been set up,” he said. This…

A team of General Service Unit escaped unhurt after their Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (M-RAP) vehicle was hit by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Banane, Garissa County.  The incident happened approximately two kilometres from Banane Centre in Damajale location some 80 kilometers from Liboi police station. Police said the officers were on their way to Hargadera to pick up officers who had been off-duty when the incident occurred on January 4. Police said the officers managed to escape unhurt save for one whose hearing had been affected by the explosion. The team was from Hamey GSU camp reads. The vehicle…

President William Ruto is unrelenting in his onslaught against corrupt judges despite calls to recant earlier statements. In a post shared on his X account, the President said his administration will get rid of corrupt judicial officers. Responding to Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi, Dr Ruto said his government will not bribe judges as has been in the past. “Ahmednasir SC ,you warned me of sabotage by corrupt judicial officers. I told you there are many good officers in the judiciary and that we will root out the corrupt. We shall,” he wrote. Ahmednasir had earlier advised the president to follow…