Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Britain’s National Air Traffic Service (NATS) was forced to restrict the flow of aircraft on Monday as it works to address a technical issue, it said. “We are currently experiencing a technical issue and have applied traffic flow restrictions to maintain safety. Engineers are working to find and fix the fault,” a spokesperson said. Earlier Scottish airline Loganair said on social media site X that there had been a network-wide failure of UK air traffic control computer systems, warning international flights may face delays. Several passengers took to social media to say they were stuck on planes on the tarmac…

Nairobi has been ranked among the least favourable cities to inhabit globally as a result of the escalating impact of global warming on ecosystems. This insight comes from a study titled the “2050 Climate Change City Index” conducted by Nestpick. The analysis, carried out by 24/7 Wall St—a financial news and opinion company based in Delaware—unveiled Nairobi’s placement as the ninth most compromised city on the list, earning it an overall score of 44.8. Nestpick’s findings reveal that Nairobi, which had an average temperature of 18.62 degrees Celsius (65.5°F) around the year 2000, is bracing for significant upheaval due to…

Victoria Commercial Bank CEO Yogesh Pattni has allegedly been arrested. Reports indicate that Pattni was allegedly taken by Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives from the banking fraud unit. As reported by this writer in April 2022, Victoria Commercial Bank was alleged to have been involved in money laundering in the Mumias Sugar saga. Mumias was placed under receivership by the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) in 2019 to protect its assets and maintain operations. The miller owed KCB and several other creditors over Ksh29 billion. KCB placed the miller under the hands of Ponangipalli Ramana Rao in a resuscitation plan.…

Kiambu police are probing the demise of a Kahawa Sukari Deliverance Church evangelist, a day before his wedding. Fred Gitau was set to wed Joyce Waithira at the same church on Saturday but was in an unfortunate turn of events found dead on Friday. Those privy to the details say the deceased was dropped off by the best couple on Thursday evening at his home. His lifeless body was discovered by police who accessed the house with the help of a young boy who helped unlock the house from the inside. Gitau was found with foam oozing from his mouth.…

A man is on the run after he raided a construction site and killed his ex-wife in a domestic feud in Ngewa, Kiambu County. Phillis Ngina Gachohi, 33 was at the site as a mason and was on the ground floor helping others deliver construction materials to the upper floors of the structure when the incident happened on Sunday, police said. And to prevent the other masons at the site from coming to her rescue, the attacker identified as Henry Kabogi Gichuru removed a makeshift ladder to the upper floors. This hindered the other workers from coming to the rescue…

Tens of youth affected by the First Choice Recruitment Agency foreign jobs scam Monday staged street protests in Eldoret town demanding their money. They were demanding a refund of the money they paid to the agency to secure jobs in Qatar and other countries before last year’s World Cup. More than 10,000 youth from Uasin Gishu were affected and the agency is now under probe by the DCI and the senate. CEO of the First Choice Recruitment Agency Judy Jepchirchir has denied swindling money from the youth and failing to offer them jobs abroad. Read: DCI Recommends Prosecution of “Untouchable” Judy…

The nationwide recruitment for members of the Kenya Defence Forces kicked off Monday August 28 amid fears of graft. The three week exercise will take place in 374 centers. Vice Chief of Defence Forces Lt Gen Johnah Mwangi officiated the exercise in Nairobi warning against bribery for anyone to be recruited. There are fears of malpractices given the high demand for the few slots available. He said they had registered 80 graft related cases in the past recruitment drive and so far they have dispensed 50 of them. “Some of these cases are complex and are pending but we will…

Director General of Immigration Services Evelyn Cheluget Monday announced a raft of new measures to improve the processing of passports. Cheluget said staff members will be increased at various desks and some officers will be deployed abroad. Counters will also be set aside for emergency cases and day and night shifts shall be introduced from Monday to Sunday and applications will now be received from 7:00 am to 8:30 pm. “If one has an emergency case of a passport he or she has to be attended to and get the document,” she said. Addressing immigration officers at Nyayo House, Cheluget…

A Pakistani court on Monday dismissed murder charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, his lawyer said. “God be praised,” said the lawyer, Naeem Panjutha on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, adding the charges related to the murder of a lawyer in the southern city of Quetta had been dismissed by a court. Khan, who was charged with the murder in June, has been facing over 100 cases since his ouster in a parliamentary vote of confidence in April 2022, after he fell out with the country’s powerful military. Rejecting Khan’s petition, seeking inadmissibility of the case early…

Japan has complained to the Chinese government after businesses and institutions began receiving abusive phone calls about releasing contaminated water from the damaged Fukushima plant. The calls come from numbers with Chinese dialing codes. One restaurant chain in Fukushima has received more than 1,000 calls. It comes as Tokyo said seawater around the nuclear plant is showing no detectable levels of radioactivity. The calls had begun since the release of contaminated water from Fukushima, authorities said, and have been made to government departments, schools, and even an aquarium. The callers speak in Chinese, Japanese and English – and sometimes use…

Detectives want to interrogate Kabras Sugar chairman Jaswant Singh Rai. This follows his release from abductors on Sunday evening. A team of police visited Rai minutes after he was released by his abductors and announced they wanted to talk to him further. The team briefly talked to Rai at his Kilimani residence before they allowed him to go to hospital. “He looks shaken and paranoid for now. We hope to talk to him later on this,” said an officer aware of the probe. The officers want to understand what those who abducted Rai told him and the possible motive. Rai…

A 48-year-old French national died at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as he waited to connect to Paris. Radjab Ahmed Moindachami was from Moroni (Comoros) on a KQ flight headed for Paris when he collapsed. He was rushed to the Port Health where officials tried to apply first aid on him in vain. Officials suspect he had heart-related complications. The incident happened on August 25 as the passenger and others waited to board their flight, officials said. Officials said the deceased had a chest scar and medication an indication that he had a heart-related problem. The body was moved to…

A man who shot dead three people in a racially motivated attack in Florida wrote of his hatred of Black people, police have said. Twenty-one year old Ryan Christopher Palmeter fired eleven rounds at one woman sitting in her car in Jacksonville, before entering a shop and shooting another two people. Sheriff T K Waters said he then turned the gun on himself. Mayor Donna Deegan said it was a “hate-filled crime” driven by racist hatred. At a news conference on Sunday, Mr Waters confirmed Palmeter had no previous criminal history and lived with his parents in Clay County. Palmeter…

President William Ruto Sunday, warned private sugar millers that he would not relent in regulating the industry to revive government-owned companies. Speaking during the interdenominational thanksgiving and prayer service at Uwanja Ndege Grounds in Bungoma County said that he would not sit back and watch a few people exploit Kenyans economically. He singled out Rai (Jaswant Rai) of the Rai Group who has been in the spotlight recently after he was abducted by unknown people on Saturday, August 25. Rai’s family filed a missing persons report at Kilimani Station a day after the incident. Rai Group controls more than 40…

A police constable in Kitui County has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a female inmate after sneaking her out of her cell. A police report shows that Constable Francis Makau was standing guard on Saturday night when he left the report office and released one Mercy Mulei. He allegedly sexually assaulted her in one of the office rooms in the station. The officer is said to have committed the crime as his partner, Ali Abdi, answered a nature call. Further, the report indicates, the suspect’s wife, Anne Kasyoka, 27, stormed the station at around 5.30 am looking for him…