Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

More details have emerged on the man who was stabbed in a car in Eldoret Town.  Officials identified him as Benjamin Kiplagat, a Ugandan. He lived in Kimumu area with his brother where he was found murdered on Sunday December 31. He represented Uganda in three Olympic games and six world championships. Moiben police commander Stephen Okal said the body of the athlete was found with a deep knife cut on the neck. “This was murder but we do not know the motive for now,” he said. The body was found in a car at Texas area near Kimumu Secondary…

Former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta Sunday sent a congratulatory message to President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on his re election.  In his message, Kenyatta urged the president-elect to embrace peace and unify the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. “Peace and unity are the foundations of a prosperous country,” he said. President Tshisekedi garnered around 72 percent of the votes during elections held December 20, 2023 amid protests of rigging. Out of 40 million registered voters only 15.9 million were able to vote. Kenyatta is the first one to send a congratulatory message to…

An athlete was Sunday morning found murdered in Eldoret Town, police said. Police identified the runner as Edward Kiplangat alias Benjamin, 37. He was from Elgeyo Marakwet County and was a long distance runner specialising in 3,000 meters steeplechase. Moiben police commander Stephen Okal said the body of the athlete was found with a deep knife cut on the neck. “This was murder but we do not know the motive for now,” he said. The body was found in a car at Texas area near Kimumu Secondary school along the Eldoret-Iten Road. The deceased was found in his brother’s car…

Two more victims have succumbed bringing the total fatalities to seven in the Eveready Roundabout accident in Nakuru County. The Sunday morning accident involved a 14 seater matatu and a long distance trailer. Survivors were rushed to Nakuru Teaching and Referral Hospital for advanced treatment. Images from the scene painted a grim image of the severity of the accident, with the matatu belonging to Ngata Sacco completely wrecked. Witnesses said it happened at about 7 am. The matatu is said to have stopped at an undesignated area prompting an oncoming trailer to ram onto it and dragged it for a…

Those planning to light fireworks on New Year’s have been advised to obtain permits. State Department for Mining clarified in a statement that the directive complied with the Explosives Act, which mandates stringent guidelines for the sale, handling, and regulation of fireworks. The government also mandated that officials from the State Department of Mining be informed of and present at any New Year’s fireworks displays. The Explosives Act states that no one may hold a public fireworks display without an inspector’s written approval. The Act also forewarns that anyone caught setting off fireworks without permission faces criminal charges and prosecution.…

At least five people were Sunday morning killed in an accident at Eveready area in Nakuru Town.  The accident involved a 14 seater matatu and a long distance trailer and occurred at Eveready roundabout. There are fears the death toll may increase, according to police. Survivors were rushed to Nakuru Teaching and Referral Hospital for advanced treatment. Images from the scene painted a grim image of the severity of the accident, with the matatu belonging to Ngata Sacco completely damaged. Witnesses said it happened at about 7 am. The matatu is said to have stopped at an undesignated area prompting…

A Rwandan woman was Saturday arrested as she led a group of hit men to a hotel she planned to kill her Swiss boyfriend in Nairobi’s Westlands area.  The woman and her brother were also carrying a jerrican full of acid which they planned to douse the body with once the man was dead. The two also had two swords at the time of their arrest. The man from Switzerland had arrived in Nairobi on December 26 and was booked to a hotel in Westlands and was to check out on December 31. On December 29, the woman identified as…

China will simplify visa applications for tourists from the United States from January 1, cutting the documents required, according to a notice on Friday on the website of the Chinese embassy in Washington. The move is the latest by China to revive tourism and boost the world’s second-largest economy following a slump during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tourist visa applicants in the U.S. will no longer need to submit air ticket bookings, hotel reservations or an invitation letter, the embassy’s notice said. Beijing earlier cleared the way for passport holders from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Malaysia to visit the country without visas…

British actor Tom Wilkinson, known for films like The Full Monty, Shakespeare In Love and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, has died aged 75. Wilkinson won a Bafta for 1997’s The Full Monty, and reprised the role of Gerald when a Disney+ streaming series revisited the characters 26 years on. He received six Bafta nominations in total as well as two Oscar nominations, for Michael Clayton and In The Bedroom. He died suddenly at home with his wife and family, they said in a statement. George Clooney, who starred with Wilkinson in the 2007 legal thriller Michael Clayton, praised the…

A Soviet-era Antonov-24 aircraft carrying 30 passengers landed on a frozen river near an airport in Russia’s far east on Thursday because of pilot error, transport prosecutors said. The Polar Airlines An-24 landed safely on the Kolyma river near Zyryanka in the Yakutia region, the prosecutors said. “According to preliminary information, the cause of the aviation incident was an error by the crew in piloting the aircraft,” a spokesperson for the Eastern Siberian transport prosecutor said in a statement. Prosecutors published pictures of the aircraft on a frozen river. The Izvestia newspaper published pictures of passengers disembarking. “The An-24 aircraft…

Ten suspects were arrested for transporting and selling donkey meat in parts of Makueni County.  The ten were arrested on Saturday after police intercepted two motor vehicles ferrying donkey meat. Preliminary investigations suggest that the donkey meat was on transport to Shauri Moyo Market in Nairobi, police said. After interrogating the suspects, police successfully identified the location where the donkeys were slaughtered. A multi-agency team of NPS Officers and Public Health Officers later visited the slaughter scene and retrieved 25 skinned heads and several hooves of donkeys from a pit within a homestead of one of the suspects. Other exhibits…

Police officers in Nairobi’s Industrial Area arrested a group of intruders who unlawfully invaded Highway Secondary School on Saturday morning, targeting the staff quarters. The suspects, allegedly dispatched by a private developer claiming legal ownership of the school’s land, attempted to forcibly remove the school’s teachers. Police were called and managed to repulse the group and arrested some of them, witnesses said. Deputy Principal Nyongesa Wandambusi said goons did not come with any documents to justify their claims. “They were also not in the company of any police officers as they just came here to destroy the school’s property,” Wandambusi…

Two men were stoned to death and burned by an angry mob who claimed they were cow thieves along Murang’a – Sagana road near Kabuta shopping centre.  The mob also torched a lorry the two were using in ferrying a herd of cows to Nairobi on Saturday December 30 morning. This is after they accused them of being cow thieves. Police discourage against mob lynching and want suspects be surrendered to authorities for processing. Police said the driver of the lorry and another suspect escaped the mob’s wrath. This comes amid rising cases of cattle theft during the festive season…

The Employment and Labour Relations Court Friday barred the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) from reposting teachers, affiliated with the Kenya Teachers in Hardship and Arid Areas Welfare Association (KETHAWA), back to the locations they fled due to insecurity. KETHAWA had filed a petition, under a certificate of urgency, seeking to have the court stop TSC from reassigning the said teachers to their previous dockets within the North Eastern region until their case was heard and determined. The teachers, in an affidavit sworn by KETHAWA National Secretary Wangonya Wangenye, decried discrimination and violation of fundamental rights and freedoms by TSC which…

Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki wants an extension of security operations from six Counties in North Rift Valley to Marsabit, Isiolo, and Meru beginning next year. Kindiki said the operation, ‘Maliza Uhalifu’ will target a notorious corridor along Samburu East, Marsabit, Isiolo, and Meru where disreputable criminals had been stealing animals and killing uniformed officers in pursuit of the culprits. He urged the Regional Commissioner for Rift Valley Abdi Hassan and his counterpart from Eastern Paul Rotich and their security teams to map out the exact areas along the corridor where the criminals operate from so that…