Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Fatuma Zarika, has raised the Country’s hopes as far as female boxing is concerned when she took home the world super Bantamweight championship (WBC). Zarika is said to have shown great resilience and skills of a great boxer when she outclassed Catherine Phiri from Zambia to retain the WBC world super bantamweight through unanimous points decision. Judges John Shipanuka (Zambia), Michael Neequaye (Ghana) and Steve Okumu unanimously scored  in favor of Zarika who boldly said that she knew she was leading and could have still won despite bleeding persistently. “I knew I was leading and could have still won the…

Suba Churchill-Civil Society Reference Group National Coordinator The Civil Society Reference Group (CSRG) has scoffed at reported commendation of the police by President Uhuru Kenyatta even after being blamed for numerous killings and brutality during the ended electioneering period. In a statement, CSRG said the approval is the latest death knell on police reforms. “President Uhuru Kenyatta’s approval and commendation of the police for “being professional and firm” during the just concluded 2017 electioneering period is callous, insensitive and confirms the widely held fears that it has become the official government policy under his watch for police to kill, brutalize…

Rapper Khaligraph Jones surprised his fans when he appeared on stage in a white coffin. The coffin was lifted to the stage by eight men dressed in black. The rapper was set to perform his song dubbed Gaza which is directed to the youths of Kayole urging them to stop engaging in crime, Jones himself is said to have lived in the area. Read:Tanzanian Music Group Dragged Off Stage In Lamu For Explicit Dance Moves Award-winning, American Singer, Songwriter and record producer Ty Dolla $ign, Octopizzo, Kagwe Mungai are among the artists who graced the event. Jameson live concert was…

Celebrated blogger Sharon Mundia’s ex husband Lonina Leteipan was recently spotted leaving a club with an unknown lady. Sharon and  Leteipan are rumored to have separated over infidelity issues,it is said that she cheated on her husband with two of her friends,Patricia Kihora and Fena Gitu. If the photos circulating on the Internet is anything to go by,then it surely seems that the two are truly separated, their fans are however insinuating that he might have moved on a bit faster. READ: Fashion Blogger Sharon Mundia Ditched by Husband After Getting Caught in Lesbian Threesome Mr Leteipan was seen leaving…

Uganda’s Anti-Luxury Wedding Act, is just what Kenyan men might need to ease the burden of tying the knot hence tone down on excuses. Seems like if they are not clobbering themselves silly, the neighboring MPs are out to defend the most important unit of a society;the family. In Uganda, dowry payment like in many African communities is almost compulsory and families are known to ask for exorbitant amount in cash and livestock. According to Daily Monitor, the average annual income per person in Uganda is $720 (Shs2.628m) meaning it will take the average Ugandan two years of saving every…

A crackdown on illegal expatriates in Saudi Arabia’s capital of Riyadh saw 100 Kenyans arrested. Police and other security personnel conducted raids in various estates and ‘rest houses’ where 100 Kenyans mostly found with alcohol which is prohibited in the kingdom were arrested. The raids were reportedly conducted in the wee hours of Thursday morning where police stormed different rest houses known as ‘Istrahas’, where different Nationals including Kenyans were arrested with drugs including bhang and a pistol also recovered. READ:Three To Be Arraigned in Court,17Million Recovered As Thika Heist Crackdown Heightens Sources claim there was confrontation with the police…

Atheists In Kenya have come out to defend prostitutes in Nairobi following a law by city mcas seeking to have the trade banned. Led by AIK chairman Harrison Mumia, the association has come out to defend prostitution saying it is no way illegal as long as the people involved in the practice are two consenting adults. Mumia said legalizing of commercial sex will protect the sex workers from crimes such as sexual abuse,rape and sexual harassment. He also said that the law passed by MCA’s is backward and violates human and civil rights of prostitutes as prostitution is a business…

Development bank owned  by the government is on the spot over serious mismanagement and misappropriation. The mismanagement and misappropriation is allegedly engineered by two top managers; the Finance Manger Johnson Kiniti and CEO Victor Kidiwa. The bank has one branch in Ngong Road’s Brew bistro building which has very few customers prompting the Finance Manger to come up with the idea of leasing office space in nature for the purpose of expansion. “It has never taken place, not even a single desk is there. We pay 1million per quarter yet no one knows what on earth for,” the source revealed.…

Property of unknown value has been gutted down by a 5.30 am fire that broke at a store at the Department of Defence (DoD) headquarters in Hurlingham,Nairobi. The Monday morning incident is said to have been caused by electric fault, no one was reported injured. READ: Second Body Found In Governor Sonko’s Casuarina Night Club Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) spokesman Colonel David Obonyo confirmed the incident, saying the fire has been contained. Do you have a story you want told? Do you know of a sensitive story you would like us to get our hands on? Email your News tips…

Doctors at Thika Level Five hospital have removed 13 sewing needles from the body of a10-month-old baby. The baby had been admitted at the hospital for pneumonia and her mother while applying jelly on the baby was pricked by a needle lodged inside the baby. She then alerted the doctors and an X-ray revealed the hoard of needles inside the baby’s body prompting an operation which has been largely successful. The urgent surgery saw the doctors remove 13 needles, but left one that they say had penetrated to the hip bone and needed specialized attention. READ: ‘Chungwa Man’ Neglected at…

Controversial entrepreneur singer and self-professed ‘international baby mama’ Akothe has elevated her baby daddies saying they are not “average men.” Finally putting to rest arguments over how many they are, she said she has five children with three baby daddies. “My three girls were born of same man called Jared Okello, well learned accountant, Ojwang’s father is Swizz while Oyoo’s Father was a French Ambassador to Kenya. I do not give birth with men who are “hivi hivi,” she said adding that “I deal with diplomats”, READ: Duale is psychotic but loves me devastatingly, Nazlin Umar. Akothe revealed she was…

The National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga is at his Opoda farm home in Bondo, Siaya County to ‘strategize his next move which includes a possible swearing in on 12 December’, according to sources close to the Premier. Odinga landed in Kisumu for the first time yesterday evening since the boycotted October 26 repeat Presidential elections amidst tight security and to a rousing heroic welcome with a multitude of residents who had thronged the airport on learning of his presence  demanding to swear him in right there. Leaders who received him at the Kisumu International Airport were by Governor…

The recent annulment of Mithika Linturi’s Law degree by the University of Nairobi is a very interesting move by an academic institution. Knowing how the balls play, Linturi just did not know how to be Kenyan enough. His case brings afore sentiments that clearly he goofed by going to UON. Mheshimiwa should have chosen to study at a university where if a man of his caliber and stature is caught in such a demeaning web, then the whole Senate, Council and Minister comes to their defense and such Institutions are sprouted all over the Country. An embarrassing number of Universities…

Neighbours of former NTV presenter are curious if the former CEO of the group, Linus Gitahi is dating screen siren, Sheilah Mwanyigha. Linus is regularly spotted trying to sneak into Sheila’s residence along Parklands road at odd hours. Linus is a regular at the place, sneaking in at midday and leaving at around 6 or 7pm. On a few occasions, he has been spotted leaving the place in the morning. If the two are lovers, it might have originated from the time Linus Gitahi was at NTV and he might have given her the job knowing that he was dating…

A guardian of a 15-year-old girl who was defiled in Homa Bay County by a boda boda rider shocked residents and the police when she chose to forgiven the culprit. Ms Pamela Olengo,a Public Health Officer said she did not want the rider to suffer in jail citing that “I am a christian.” Medical reports revealed that Ben Orage, 30, had defiled the minor, a standard seven Pupil from Siaya County who had gone to stay with her aunt (Ms Olengo) over the holidays  as her house-hep had left without notice. READ: 15 Turbo Students To Sit Final KCSE Paper…