Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

This weekend’s UFC 249 event represents more than one of the most stacked mixed martial arts cards of all time. It also represents one of the first significant steps back to live sport amid the Covid-19 pandemic. With two championship fights and an array of UFC stars on the bill, UFC 249 – to be broadcast live on SuperSport 1and 11 on Sunday morning (04:00 CAT) – promises to be both explosive and unusual. To mitigate the risks of the pandemic, no crowd will be in attendance in Jacksonville, Florida. Also, commentators must sit separately and all crew members will…

Even as the search for a substantive director-general for Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA), the body risks hiring persons who have been adversely mentioned in previous scandals in and outside the institution. Among top candidates who have applied for the positions that were advertised in April include Jackson Karibiu Magondu and Peter Pato Gichoh, whose names have been mentioned in several graft scandals in the body. According to those in the know, the two who work for KeRRA have been blacklisted by the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission (EACC) and the National Intelligence Service (NIS), due to their corrupt past. For…

Opposition leader and handshake supremo Raila Odinga today had a lunch meeting with one of his most fervent critic and Kapsaret MP, Oscar Sudi. While it’s not clear what Raila and Sudi were discussing, the meeting came right before the criticism of Orange Democratic Movement Members of Parliament’s attack on Uhuru’s government in parliament a few minutes later. Oscar Sudi met @RailaOdinga for lunch today at The Pumpkin Restaurant in Kilimani.Few hours later, ODM legislators wanted President Uhuru to resign. I am told Raila told Oscar Sudi that he can’t trust Uhuru to cross with him the river safely. The…

NRG Radio commercial director Denis Ndavi is on the spot, again over delayed child support payments. In a tweet shared by the mother of his child, food blogger Naisenya Kimani, Ndavi owes her over Sh800,000 in child support. Court documents as shared by Naisenya show that the NRG Radio human resource manager was ordered to withhold their employee’s salary and instead use it to pay for the child’s upkeep. The court order was issued on January 10, 2020. Again, a court document dated February 14 summons Ndavi’s boss, Kevin Mulei for not carrying out the order of withholding pay as…

Is racism alive and well in Tanzanian international schools? This is one disturbing question that many social media users have been left pondering after an alumnus of the United World College East Africa detailed about the racial discrimination she experienced while a student at the institution. In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Kemilembe Mugangala, who once served as President of the School’s Student Council, called out the institution formerly known as International School Moshi (ISM) for tolerating racism against black students in its Arusha and Moshi campuses. UWC East Africa is a member of the United World College network…

Banda Homes has disputed a story that aired on Citizen TV alleging that home buyers had been duped, terming the reports as malicious. In a statement, the home construction company says that they had intended to hand over finished homes to phase 1 home owners, when agitated phase 2 buyers came with Citizen TV crew. The company says that the agitated buyers did not want the estate occupied before all houses were complete. “This meeting was meant to allow clients confirm their satisfaction with works in their particular units. We were, however, ambushed by agitated clients from phase 2 who…

Police in Lamu has obtained court orders to detain Omar Lali for at least 21 days as they investigate circumstances leading to the death of Keroche Breweries heiress, Tecra Muigai. In a ruling made on Tuesday after application by the prosecution, the court sitting in Lamu ordered that Omar Lali be detained at Lamu Police station for the next 21 days until the investigations would be complete. The family of the suspect has protested the move saying that the order infringes on the rights of the suspect who hasn’t been found guilty of any offence. They have likened the order…

A light Kenyan aircraft with 6 crew members has been brought down after getting hit with a rocket-propelled grenade in Somalia while landing. The Embraer 120 plane with tail registration 5Y AXO and belonging to African Express was landing in Bardale town when it was hit with an RPG in what is now believed to be a mistake by Ethiopian forces. An African Express air plane crashed in Bardaale ,killing all those on board.   as the locals counted five died bodies at the side of the crash.#Bardaale pic.twitter.com/gP7DxtKceh — Baidoa Online (@BaidoaU) May 4, 2020 The plane was reportedly brought…

Police in Lamu has finally moved in and arrested a man who has been reported to have been the boyfriend of the late Tecra Muigai Karanja. According to sources at the DCI office at the Coast, Lali Omar was arrested after he kept changing his version of events leading to the fall and subsequent death of Tecra Muigai. Tecra Muigai is reported to have met Lali Omar who is in his fifties at Peponi Hotel early this year after the Keroche Breweries heiress failed to raise enough money to pay hotel bill incurred at the facility. Lali, known to be…

Homicide detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have moved in to investigate the mysterious death of Keroche Breweries heiress Tecra Muigai after an accident at the Lamu home of a man who is said to have been her boyfriend. According to sources close to the boyfriend and friends in Lamu, Tecra Muigai was staying in Mombasa and Lamu when she met the boyfriend at a hotel in Lamu. READ: DCI Detectives Raid Goldenscape Karen Offices, Question Staff Over Fraud Claims The boyfriend who is said to love parties was with Tecra and others when the Keroche Breweries owners’ daughter…

Airtel Kenya has today donated Personal Protective Equipment valued at 30 million shillings to the Ministry of Health, to support health workers on the frontline in the battle against COVID-19. Frontline health workers’ safety is paramount in management of the testing and treatment of the hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Due to their close proximity to the most severe cases, health workers face a higher risk of contracting the virus. The frontline staff work in stressful environments, not just because the virus is little understood, but because in most settings they are under-protected and themselves vulnerable to infection by the nature of…

Luos of Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania have many funeral or burial rites which must be fulfilled over a period of one year. While many from the current generation don’t observe these, some are still keenly followed. These are some of them. 1. Death Announcement ~ Lendo The Luo people come to learn of death through the senior-most woman’s start of wailing and from the house of the most senior person in the homestead. The wailing is followed by beats of drums while men and others would whistle to announce the death of a person and invite the neighbours…

Pay Television provider StarTimes Kenya has announced the launch of an online shopping platform named StarTimes GO. In a statement, the pay-TV provider has announced that the platform will offer the public access to shopping through services available via television, Online and calls. StarTimes Go, will be available through the company’s over the top streaming media application StarTimes ON and as 15-minute programs that will broadcast on the pay television platform’s Rembo, Border and Tripple P channels where customers will be in a position to select, order and pay for different products through the application’s electronic wallet options including Co-operative,…

Sarova Hotels Kenya today has donated ready-to-eat food to Covid-19 front line health workers at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), which the recipients have said to be rotten and stinking. The food was delivered by Sarova Managing Director Jimi Kariuki and received by Dr Evanson Kamuri today. However, workers who spoke to Kahawa Tungu on condition of anonymity say that most of the food was stinking and not fit for human consumption. They have refused to eat the food. Read: Kenya’s COVID-19 Cases Hit 320 As 17 More Tested Positive The food seen by this writer looked like leftovers that…

Kenyans working for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) at Port Reitz now say that the Chinese counterparts are mistreating them, accusing them of spreading Covid-19. Kenyans who spoke to Kahawa Tungu say that the buses that ferry them to and from work have had their windows sealed, “so that they do not infect the Chinese” with the virus. “The situation at Port Reitz SGR Port is getting worse with the harassment of these Chinese.Today the bus ferrying staff to and from work had all its windows sealed reason being we should not open windows when passing through the premises where…