Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Detectives have exhumed 12 more bodies from mass graves in Shakahola Forest, Kilifi County, on land linked to cult leader Paul Mackenzie. This raised the death toll to 403 people who perished from activities of the deadly cult. Coast Regional Commissioner Rhoda Onyancha said 19 bodies have been identified, 95 people rescued, 65 arrested and 613 reported missing. There are 257 DNA samples so far collected. Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki said there are 40 more mass graves that could contain multiple bodies. Read: Be Patient – Ruto Urges Kenyans as Investigators “Get to the Bottom” of Shakahola Massacre “The government…

Kitui East Member of Parliament Nimrod Mbai was Monday grilled by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) for assaulting a Kenya Power employee. “No I never assaulted anyone. Did you see me? I am a pastor and did not do that,” he said. He had been summoned to the anti-graft agency over the incident. Mbai, who claims to be a pastor, stated that he had no knowledge of the incident in question and claimed that the video footage had been tampered with. Expressing no remorse, the lawmaker defended his actions, stating that if given another opportunity, he would handle the…

Azimio la Umoja now asserts that the State has authorized the use of militia to repress peaceful protestors. Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi on Monday claimed that the government had enlisted the services of an armed militia to engage opposition supporters. The decision, he said, was reached during the Saturday Kenya Kwanza Parliamentary Group meeting at State House. “For the first time in history we are being made to understand that State House has sanctioned enlisting of militia to attack peaceful demonstrators,” the National Assembly minority leader said. Read: Opposition Free to Hold Peaceful Protests – Ruto “We take note that Kenya…

The Political Parties Liaison Committee (PPLC) has called for the full implementation of the Kriegler report on election reforms. The implementation of the report the Committee’s chair Evans Misati said, will help bring to an end election disputes on results transmission and selection of IEBC commissioners. “It is worth noting that like many other reports, the Kriegler report continues to gather dust somewhere yet to date there has yet to be any other credible solution for electoral reforms in Kenya,” Misati said on Monday. “Our elections must deliver finality. Full implementation of the recommendations will ensure that one wins or…

Court allows the withdrawal of a second graft case against former Principal Secretary Lilian Omollo as sought by the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP). Senior principal magistrate Peter Ooko said it is in the interest of justice including that of the public, if the matter is discontinued at this juncture. The magistrate said going by the evidence given so far, the case against Omollo would end up with an acquittal if the case is allowed to proceed to a conclusion. Read: DPP Withdraws Graft Charges Against Ex-PS Lilian Omollo Ooko added that this might in the end see the…

Controversial televangelist Bishop Gilbert Juma Deya has been acquitted of stealing five children. Nairobi’s Milimani senior principal magistrate Robison Ondieki ruled that the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case against Deya. The court said the burden of proof against the accused was wanting as none of the evidence placed the accused where the subjects were recovered. The suspicion being strong cannot make someone guilty, he said. “The prosecution having failed to establish circumstantial evidence, I acquit the accused under section 250 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC)”, the magistrate ruled. Deya was facing five counts of stealing children…

The Mombasa Environment and Land Court has dismissed a preliminary objection filed to block the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) from recovering public land worth Sh2.4 Billion grabbed from the Moi International Airport. The dismissed application also sought to stop the anti-graft agency from recovering Sh984 million being illegal compensation made by the National Land Commission (NLC). This was in the compulsory acquisition of land for the construction of the SGR and the Dongo – Kundu Kipevu Road Project in Mombasa. In rejecting the preliminary objection by former NLC Chief Executive Officer Tom Aziz Chavangi and co-defendants in the recovery…

There was panic at the iconic GTC Tower in Nairobi’s Westlands area when police discovered an abandoned object on the roadside. The structure is currently the tallest and newest one in the city and lies on Chiromo Lane. It is still taking in new tenants. Police and witnesses said a suspicious object wrapped in red clothing was dropped by a car at the GTC building area on Sunday afternoon. The occupants and the car are yet to be found. This forced officials to cordon off the area and called police who arrived with a sniffer dog. Police from General Service…

The opposition co-principal and NARC Kenya party leader Martha Karua and economist David Ndii, who serves as the chair of President William Ruto’s Council of Economic Advisors, engaged in an online spat over money that then Deputy President William Ruto is said to have given towards the BBI case. The conversation started when activist Boniface Mwangi criticized President Ruto’s recent decision to lift the prohibition on logging when Twitter user @McOsedoh chimed in. “Can’t believe Bonny and Ndii were once in a group called Linda Katiba fighting fiercely for the rule of law and constitutionalism. How Ndii joined the mutilators…

Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka Sunday told the Inspector General of Police to be ready to bear responsibility at the International Criminal Court. He said Kenya is under the ICC and when the right time comes the police boss will face the law. “There is a higher court and the rules of engagement are very clear, that a person, or persons bearing the highest responsibility. If it is police who are killing people like rabbits it is police IG who will bear responsibility,” he said. Kalonzo said the ICC holds individuals with the highest level of responsibility over institutions, and thus…

By BBC The singer, actress and fashion icon Jane Birkin has died at the age of 76. The English-French star was known for her personal and artistic relationship with songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, and inspired a generation of fashionistas in the late 1960s and 1970s. She inspired Hermes’ Birkin handbag, which is popular around the world. Birkin was born in London but found fame singing in French, relocating there in the 1970s. Her personal and artistic relationship with Gainsbourg made her internationally famous following their hit “Je t’aime… moi non plus”. The duet was recorded in 1968, months after they met…

The National Police Service has warned of heavy traffic at the Likoni Ferry channel. “The National Police Service wishes to inform the public that there is a heavy traffic jam at the Likoni Ferry as of today July 16, 2023, 1400hrs,” police said. Police directed motorists travelling from Nairobi to Mombasa to use Samburu-Kinangop road in order to access the South Coast. “Entering Mombasa through the South Coast will be a way of decongesting the Likoni Ferry,” police added. The police did not, however, reveal the cause of the traffic jam. The 50 km stretch which cost the taxpayer Sh2…

Former President Uhuru Kenyatta, Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga, and Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka are all targets of a campaign started by digital strategist Dennis Itumbi that aims to prevent them from receiving their pension benefits. Itumbi shared a link to the ‘babatumechoka’ campaign, which is a response to the trio’s “continued engagement in destructive politics, incitement, and violence.” Those looking to make submissions must provide their information, including their ID number, name, phone number, county, constituency, and ward names, before signing and submitting. Since retiring as Prime Minister in 2012, Raila has been collecting a monthly pension,…

Three firearms that were stolen from authorities have been recovered in separate incidents, police have said. Two of the firearms were recovered by women while the other was by a male shopkeeper, all during botched robberies. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said two of the firearms – both AK47 rifles – were recovered in Ndhiwa on July 13 and in Korogocho Nairobi on July 9, respectively. The other G3 rifle was recovered in Trans Nzoia on May 27. On Thursday at around 11.30 pm, a man armed with an AK47 rifle raided a home in Nyawiso village, Ndhiwa in…

Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Alliance coalition party leader Raila Odinga’s brother, Oburu Odinga, claims there is a plot to eliminate the ODM leader. Speaking on Saturday, the Siaya senator dared the President William Ruto-led government to carry out the sinister plot. “We have information at the family level, political level and other circles, that Kenya Kwanza regime is put to eliminate Raila. But we urge them to go ahead,’’ Oburu said. He noted that Raila was not what ails Kenya, but rather the high cost of living, hunger and unemployment. “Even if you kill Raila today, there will be…