Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Friday revealed that he is pursuing retired President Uhuru Kenyatta for dialogue in a bid to unite Mt Kenya ahead of 2027 General Election. He said he has resolved to heal the community of the 2022 General Election rivalry that saw Kenyatta suffer defeat in the scramble for Mt Kenya political soul to President William Ruto. “Mr Kenyatta was fronting Mr Raila Odinga for the presidency and he lost. We have now decided to embrace him as our respectable son and statesman despite everything,” Gachagua said. “As Mt Kenya leaders we have agreed not to…

Kenya’s largest telecommunications company Safaricom sustained over 1.2 million jobs (236,674 direct and 1,159,309 indirect) and contributed Sh909.5 billion into the Kenyan economy in the past financial year. According to the telco’s 12th Sustainable Business Report, the Sh909.5 billion added to the Kenyan economy was approximately 15 times greater than the financial profit made during the year. This, the giant telco attributed to the value created for customers, agents, and merchants through M-PESA (17 percent increase from 2022), as well as the growth in economic impact created through Safaricom’s capital and operational expenditures during the period under review, shows the…

The High Court Friday, October 6 postponed the judgement of former TV news anchor Jacque Maribe and her ex-fiancé Joseph Irungu alias Jowie to December 15. This is because the judge who was to handle the matter was said to be unwell. She had in March this year ruled the two have a case to answer. Jowie is the first accused person in the murder trial of Monica. He was charged alongside Maribe in 2018. The woman’s badly mutilated body was found at her Lamuria Gardens Apartment on Kitale Lane off Denis Pritt Road in Kilimani, Nairobi. She had arrived…

Police are investigating a tragic incident in which a third-year student at Chuka University died by suicide in Makueni’s Kosovo area. Police said they had been told Januaris Muuo aged 24 had been mentally sick. He went missing on October 2 until October 4 when the body was found dangling from the roof of his stepmother’s kitchen. The motive of the incident is yet to be known. The body was moved to the mortuary. And police are investigating an incident in which a 36-year-old man died by suicide at a salon washroom in Mlolongo area, Machakos County. Read: Strathmore University Student…

An autopsy on the body of popular Instagram influencer Janet Aziza Frisby did not reveal the exact cause of her death.
Police said the model passed on Wednesday, October 4 in Nairobi. Frisby, 28, was found dead in a house she shared with her sister Patricia at Kileleshwa, Nairobi. An autopsy carried out on her body on Wednesday ruled there was no physical attack on her. It is suspected she died of an overdose. The pathologists picked samples from her body for toxicology tests. This will tell if she died of an overdose of the drink she was taking. The tests…

A Russian attack on the village of Hroza, south-east of Kharkiv, killed at least 51 people, including an eight-year-old boy, Ukraine says. Villagers were attending a wake for a local resident when a missile struck at 15:15 local time (13:15 BST). Ukraine’s defence ministry said there were no military targets in the area – only civilians. Kharkiv regional head Oleh Synyehubov described the attack as one of the region’s “bloodiest crimes”. He confirmed that everyone who died were residents of the village, and that today’s attack killed 20 percent of its population. “One-fifth of this village has died in a…

A drone attack on a Syrian military academy in the city of Homs killed at least 100 people and left dozens injured. The explosive-laden drones targeted a graduation ceremony attended by cadets’ families, and women and children were among the dead. The army blamed “terrorist groups backed by known international forces”. There was no immediate claim from the rebels and jihadists battling the government in the country’s civil war. The drone attack is believed to have been launched from opposition-held areas north-west of Homs. Later, first responders from the White Helmets reported that five civilians had been killed in intense…

At least 11 suspects arrested by detectives in connection to a high-level motor vehicle registration fraud, at the National Transport and Safety Authority. This is after detectives conducted a comprehensive system audit of the NTSA Transport Integrated Management System (TIMS) after suspecting that crooked NTSA officials were operating back office accounts to register motor vehicles fraudulently. In the ongoing probe conducted by Cybercrime sleuths based at the National Forensic Laboratory, the main suspect identified as Jimmy Kibet Wayans, was arrested at a house in Lavington. Police said this is where he operated a suspicious account that had infiltrated the TIMS…

Former TV anchor Jacque Maribe and her ex-fiancé Joseph Irungu alias Jowie will Friday October 6 know whether they will be found guilty over the murder of late businesswoman Monica Kimani. Trial Judge Grace Nzioka will make the ruling. She had in March this year ruled the two have a case to answer. Jowie is the first accused person in the murder trial of Monica. He was charged alongside Jacque Maribe in 2018. The woman’s badly mutilated body was found at her Lamuria Gardens Apartment on Kitale Lane off Denis Pritt road in Kilimani, Nairobi. Read: Sonko Confirms Being with Jackie…

Police from the Transnational Organized Crime detectives are holding 15 suspects in connection with passports issuance corruption scandal at Nyayo House, Nairobi. This follows an investigation into claims of graft at the place. In the ongoing operation which was launched on Monday, October 2, 2023, six Department of Immigration Services staff including an intern and nine suspected brokers have been arrested, while manhunt for more suspects who got wind of the operation and run into hiding continues. In the classic case of grand corruption, members of the public and foreigners seeking passports and work permits respectively have been forced to…

The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) board has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer and six directors. In a statement Thursday, the board announced that Elijah Wachira will take over as CEO from Samson Kuhora. Kuhora has been holding the position on an interim basis for the last five months following the retirement of Peter Kamunyo in April. Read: Cabinet Approves Scrapping Of NHIF, 3 New Funds To Be Introduced Wachira will serve for a three-year term with the possibility of one final extension at the end of the period. The directors will hold the positions for a five-year term each…

A senior polite officer died by suicide after shooting himself in the chin in Utawala, Nairobi. Superintendent Ezra Ouma shot himself in his house Thursday afternoon moments after he had called his friend who is also a police officer and told her he would die by suicide. Ouma was in charge of special operations bureau (SOB) at Kayole police division. He was due for retirement in two years, his colleagues said. He is a former OCS Jogoo and OC Traffic Makueni. Police who visited the scene said Ouma had also shot a neighbor in the left leg after he tried…

Immigration and Citizens Services Principal Secretary Julius Bitok says revenue collected on the eCitizen platform has grown by 300 percent over the last three months. The PS noted that the revenue collected jumped from Sh1,397,301,980 in June to Sh4,168,704,016 in September. In July, he said, Sh2,320,210,423 was collected while Sh3,590,051,462 was collected in August. In June, President William Ruto directed that all government services be onboarded on the platform to seal loopholes and leakages. Read: State Agencies Directed to Switch to 222222 Paybill by August 8 “From today all government agencies should use the government paybill manned by the National Treasury.…

Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Alliance coalition party has condemned the violence in Sondu on the border of Kisumu and Kericho counties. Speaking during a press conference on Thursday, the opposition called on the government to take action and restore calm in the area. The coalition implicated Kericho Governor Dr Eric Mutai as one of the sponsors of the violence that has thus far left seven dead. “These leaders must abandon their expansionist tendency through which they are seeking to extend the boundary of Kericho County with a view to claiming Sondu town. We are convinced that this violence is…

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine has said he was “grabbed” by “goons” and put under house arrest on his return from abroad. The singer-turned-politician is the strongest challenger to President Yoweri Museveni, who has held office for almost 40 years. He has been arrested numerous times and has faced several charges, including treason. Police denied Wine’s arrest, stating instead that he was accompanied home. Wine, a former pop star whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, made a failed bid for the presidency in 2021 in a tense election against President Museveni, 79. The election campaign was marked by a crackdown…