Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Police are investigating an incident in which a 77-year-old man was found dead in a lodging in Mwala area, Machakos County after a meeting with a woman. The man had been with a 32-year-old woman in the room when he suddenly collapsed and died, police said. The man had swallowed sex boosters ahead of the meeting with the woman, which is believed to have caused his death. According to police, the incident happened at a hotel in Masii Market on Saturday September 9 evening. The elderly man had booked the room together with the woman. The woman informed officials at…

Police in Machakos on Friday evening shot dead a suspected carjacker and arrested another during an operation that led to the recovery of a stolen Isuzu D-max truck. The police said they also recovered a toy pistol. According to Machakos Police Commander Patrick Lobolia the suspects are believed to be part of a gang that has been attacking and robbing locals. Loboli said the arrested suspect was used by the syndicate to deactivate vehicle tracking systems installed in the stolen vehicles. He said they had registered a trend where thugs targeted such recovered vehicles along Mombasa Road. “We believe that…

Former Migori county Deputy Governor Nelson Mahanga Mwita is dead. Mahanga died at the MP Shah Hospital, Nairobi Saturday September 9 where he had been admitted after an illness, his family said. Mahanga served as deputy governor for Migori County for two terms between 2013 and 2022 under ex-governor Okoth Obado. Governor Ochillo Ayako mourned Mahanga in a statement. Ayako said Mahanga was a devoted leader in public service who gave his best for the betterment of the society. “With great commiseration, we register our sincere condolences to the family, friends and the people of Migori for having lost such…

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation have safely returned a minor to his parents after he was allegedly abducted by his teachers. The 9-year-old pupil was reported missing by his father after he went to pick him up from a school in Donholm, Nairobi. It is then that the father was informed that the grade three pupil had left in the company of his class teacher. According to the police, the abductors demanded a Sh10 million ransom. Read: Search On for Migori County Employee Allegedly Abducted by Cops “Efforts to trace the teacher proved futile only for the father to…

Terror suspect Daniel Khalife remains in police custody after being arrested in north-west London on Saturday. The 21-year-old was apprehended by a plain-clothes officer who pulled him from a bicycle on a canal towpath in the Northolt area. The arrest followed a four-day search after Mr Khalife’s escape from Wandsworth prison. The Met said he had been arrested on suspicion of being unlawfully at large and being an escaped prisoner. The former soldier was detained at 10:41 BST on Saturday, about 14 miles from the prison he escaped on Wednesday morning. Police had offered a reward of up to £20,000…

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Morocco has soared to more than 2,000, with a similar number of injured. The interior ministry says more than 1,400 have serious injuries, and the heaviest casualties are in provinces just south of Marrakesh. King Mohammed VI declared three days of national mourning and ordered shelter, food and other help for survivors. Many people are spending a second night out in the open. The magnitude 6.8 quake hit Marrakesh and many towns on Friday night. In remote mountain areas, entire villages are reported to have been flattened. The epicentre was in the…

Terror suspect Daniel Khalife was Saturday arrested in west London after a four-day manhunt, police have said. Scotland Yard said the 21-year-old former soldier was detained just before 11:00 BST in the Chiswick area – about four miles from Wandsworth prison, from where he escaped on Wednesday. Overnight, there were confirmed sightings of him in the area. The Met had been reviewing CCTV footage and using a helicopter to search areas in west and south-west London. The force said Mr Khalife is currently in police custody. He is accused of trying to spy for an enemy state, understood to be…

Renowned sports commentator Sean Cardovillis is dead. Cardovillis’ body was found Saturday September 9 morning outside his house along Rhapta Road, Westlands where he lived alone. His body was found at his staircase by a cleaner who had gone to clean at the area leading to his house on the fourth floor of an apartment, police and witnesses said. Cardovillis is said to have earlier on gone out for a bicycle ride before returning home at about 7 pm Friday. Many hours later, his lifeless body was found at the staircase. It is not clear if he was leaving for…

At least 49 civilians and 15 soldiers were killed when Islamist militants attacked a military camp and a vessel in northeastern Mali on Thursday, the interim government said. Many more were wounded, it added in a statement read on national television, noting that the death toll was provisional. Insurgents attacked a boat carrying civilians across the flooded plains that separate the towns of Gao and Mopti during the rainy season. Also Read: Sudan’s Army Shelling Claims At Least 32 Lives In Omdurman The vessel was traveling from Gao when it was hit, officials said. Assailants also attacked a military camp…

The founder and President Emeritus of South Africa’s Inkatha Freedom Party, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, died Saturday aged 95. As the country remembers the founder and long-standing leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, his role in South Africa’s journey towards democracy remains shrouded in controversy. The 95-year-old passed away in the early hours of Saturday morning. He founded the Inkatha Freedom Party at the behest of long-serving African National Congress (ANC) President Oliver Tambo, but it soon became a thorn in the side of the then liberation movement. After years of deadly fighting between the ANC and…

Bungoma Police have nabbed three people for allegedly offering fake Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) calling letters to unsuspecting Kenyans. A police report seen by this writer shows that a bishop from a church in Bungoma raised concerns after two of his congregants who unsuccessful sought induction into the army at Cheptais on September 5 were called by a strange mobile number. The person on the other end of the line is said to have promised the two a chance to join KDF. They were later invited them to Kimilili town where they were issued with fake KDF calling letters instructing…

A report released on Friday revealed that a special grand jury investigating efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results recommended indictments against a much larger group than Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis ultimately charged, including one current and two former U.S. senators. The nine-page report showed jurors recommended charges against 39 number of people, compared to the 18 who were charged along with former President Donald Trump. The names of those not indicted included Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of Georgia, former U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue of Georgia and former Trump national security adviser Michael…

Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary (CS) Davis Chirchir Friday sent home five board members of the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA). This is seen as part of measures to streamline operations at the agency. Those sent packing include George Mwakule, Moses Murengu, Daniel Ndonye, Mercy Wambugu, and Caroline Githii. Anthony Gachau, Diba Daudi, Abraham Kipruto, and Jenipher Long’or will be the new directors of the EPRA Board. “In exercise of the powers conferred by section 12(1) of the constitution Energy Act, the Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum appoints, Anthony Gachau, Diba Daudi, Abraham Kipruto and Jenipher Long’or to…

The Political Parties Disputes Tribunal Friday stopped changes that had been announced at the Garissa County Assembly. The County Assembly Speaker had Wednesday announced the changes that touched on the Majority leadership. In the changes that were announced to the Assembly Speaker Abdi Idle, first-term Galbet ward MCA Abubakar Khalif was replaced by Mohamed Abdi Farah, who is serving his third consecutive term. But the PPDT chairman Desma Nungo overturned the announcement following a petition by Khalif and Abdi Ibrahim Daar. The application by the two dated September 7 2023 was certified urgent for consideration ex-parte in the first instance…

The government Friday ordered all Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Public Benefits Organizations (PBOs) operating in Kenya to align their operations with President William Ruto’s bottom-up economic transformation agenda. Internal Security Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo said the directive follows revelations of misalignment of international donor aid with Kenya Kwanza administration’s development agenda. “This model, sadly, leans more towards meeting the interests of donor countries than supporting Kenya’s national development agenda and priority needs,” Dr Omollo said in a statement released on Friday. He said following their review of the operations of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Public Benefits Organizations (PBOs) registered in…