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A Doctor has sued Asset Recovery Agency Deputy Director, legal Services and corporation Secretary Jennifer Gitiri for holding eight public offices. Dr Magare Gikenyi accuses Gitiri of holding five public offices thus denying other Kenyans a chance to serve in those capacities. He wants the High Court to issue an order prohibiting Gitiri from sitting as a Board Member or employee of Council of Legal Education, Kenya Law Reporting Council(KLRC) , Kenya Revenue Authority(KRA), witness Protection agency(WPA) and Victim Protection agency(VPA). He also wants the court to issue an order prohibiting Gitiri from drawing allowances for sitting on those institutions’…

Controller of Budget Dr Margaret Nyakang’o has revealed details surrounding her dramatic arrest and arraignment in Mombasa. She spoke for the first time after she was arrested in Nairobi and was driven to Mombasa where she was arraigned. According to her, it all started sometimes in October this year when she was summoned to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters and asked to clear some issues over an ongoing investigation. The officer who called her told her a file had been dispatched from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions recommending her prosecution but her statement was missing. She…

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is resigning from Congress and will leave at the end of this year, he announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Wednesday — a highly anticipated decision that comes two months after his unprecedented ouster from the speakership. McCarthy’s decision will narrow the House GOP’s already historically slim majority, which just last week got smaller after the expulsion of ex-Rep. George Santos of New York. How much room Republicans have to work with next year will depend on the outcome of a handful of special elections in 2024. McCarthy, who has been in office…

Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Alliance coalition party leader Raila Odinga claims the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations were printed along Mombasa Road. The former prime minister on Wednesday alleged that the Kenya Kwanza government cancelled an exam printing tender awarded to a United Kingdom-based firm in favour of the local firm. According to the ODM leader, the foreign company lost the tender after it failed to bribe government officials. “We’ve established that early this year the government abruptly stopped this contract because the UK company refused to give kickbacks. Without following any legal process, the KK awarded…

The Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) has dispelled claims that a Sh17 billion consignment of edible oil imported by the government through the Kenya National Trading Corporation was unsafe for human consumption. KEBS on Wednesday said the consignment was inspected and tested and did not find any safety concerns. The government agency, however, noted that the oil did not meet the Vitamin A level parameters. “However, the sampled edible oils did not meet the Vitamin A levels specified in the Kenyan Standard. This is not a health and safety parameter; KEBS communicated the results to KNTC,” said KEBS. “We would…

DCI detectives have arrested five suspects believed to be members of an organized criminal group that has been operating within Sargoi area and its neighborhoods. The five; Vincent Ochieng, Shadrack Ochieng, Felix Otieno, Salim Ali and Shafi Yusuf, were arrested following an intelligence-led operation, by a team of officers based at Central Police Station in Mombasa. They had earlier been captured in a video recording in which they displayed stolen items. https://twitter.com/DCI_Kenya/status/1732297057463832784 Their arrest led to the recovery of a navy blue jacket, three iPhones, a Samsung phone, a Memojo phone, bluetooth headphones among others. The five have been processed…

A 28-year-old man drowned while swimming at the pool of a hotel in Diani, Kwale County. Police said the incident happened at Papillon Lagoon Beach on December 4. The deceased was identified Brian Njuguna Nyambura who worked with Techno Company. He and his colleagues had booked at the hotel when he decided to go swimming. He later drowned and was rescued and rushed to Diani Beach Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Police visited the scene and took the body to the mortuary. Elsewhere in Mbeere, Embu County one Sharon Karimi drowned as she washed clothes on the…

Police are investigating an incident in which a 75-year-old man was dead after he had been hacked to death in a village in Baricho, Kirinyaga County. The body of Caxton Mbuthia was found with multiple body injuries in Kiriti village. It was found lying dead outside a homestead and a blood-stained fork jembe was recovered from the house where the incident happened. The jembe was kept as an exhibit, police said. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations. Police said a suspect is being questioned over the murder. Elsewhere in Kirwarwa, Muranga County, a man…

Anti-terror detectives are holding a 39-year-old man who was found fundraising money at mosques to enable him to change his name in Lungalunga, Kwale County. Paul Bachia Wangui is an ex-convict after he had been arrested in Mandera while trying to cross to Somalia in 2022 to join al Shabaab terrorists, police said. He was arrested on Tuesday, December 5 in Vanga as he moved from one mosque to the other raising money to enable him change his name to Mohamed Bashir Wangui. He had also changed his religion from Christianity to Islam in 2012. Locals called police on Tuesday…

Authorities are investigating how electronic learning tablets that had been reported stolen were recovered at a neighbouring school in Msambweni, Kwale County. The headmistress of Shamu primary had reported on Monday that 23 electronic learning tablets, four tropies and three balls were stolen from her office by unknown people at unknown time. Police visited and searched the school compound in vain. Police later said all the stolen items were recovered from a different school in the area. The children who had them were talked to and handed back to their parents and the Msambweni Children Officer. Local administrators were asked…

Pop star Billie Eilish has confirmed that she accidentally came out in a recent interview with Variety magazine. Speaking on the red carpet at a Variety event in Los Angeles on Saturday, the 21-year-old Grammy award-winner said she didn’t want to make a big deal out of revealing her sexual preferences. Asked by the red carpet interviewer whether she intended to come out in the cover article, which was published in November, Eilish replied: “No, I didn’t. But I kind of thought, ‘Wasn’t it obvious?’” “I didn’t realize people didn’t know. I just don’t really believe in it. I’m just,…

Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Alliance coalition party leader Raila Odinga says the charges against Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang’o are “frivolous”. In a statement, the former prime minister said the accusations levelled against Ms Nyakang’o are meant to push her out of office in favour of a “user friendly holder of the office, who will support and sanitize the looting currently underway “. According to Raila, the accusations which he said did not come as a surprise to the opposition are merely a political witch-hunt. The ODM party leader urged Ms Nyakang’o to remain steadfast in “defence of integrity,…

The government is reviewing the recruitment and operation of the National Police Reservists (NPRs). Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Administration of the National Government, Kithure Kindiki says the government will increase the number of NPRs in Kenya’s troubled north to permanently eliminate the scourge. “To seal off operational gaps, we are forthwith reorganizing the management, command, and control of the National Police Reservists (NPR) to supplement the capabilities of the National Police Service (NPS) and Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) in the operation,” he added. He said the officers deployed will be on the ground forever. “This is not a one-off…

Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang’o has been released on a Sh500,000 cash bail. Ms Nyakang’o on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to four counts of conspiracy to defraud and forgery. She was arrested in Mombasa over a complaint made against her and 10 others back in 2016. Her co-accused include Jackson Ngure Wanjau, Susan Kendi, James Makena Wanyagi, John Muchira Kithaka, Jane Karuu Ndanvi and Muthoni Elphas. Read: Controller of Budget Nyakangoo Arrested, to Face Criminal Charges The others are Joan Chumo, Mercy Ndura Mukora, Gregory Mwangangi Mailu and Michael Kipkurui. She and the ten are accused of conspiracy to defraud contrary…

A Nairobi court has suspended the registration and issuance of new digital IDs. Justice John Chigiti on Tuesday ordered that the government not register persons or issue new generation IDs. Katiba Institute in a petition sought orders stopping the government from executing or further executing the November 1, 2023 decision to roll out the Maisha Namba Cards before conducting a data protection impact assessment per section 31 of the Data Protection Act. “Mandamus compelling the Respondents to conduct a data protection impact assessment per section 31 of the Data Protection Act before piloting or rolling out the Maisha Namba, including…