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Police detained six more foreigners in Garissa as they sought directions to the main Kenya- Somalia border. The six were headed for Somalia to join terror group al Shabaab, police said. Police identified the six as Muhamed Jahad Farah, Saad Suleiman Saleh, Nadrik Mbwana Salum, Abdul Kadir Salum Seif and Ali Issa Ali, all Tanzanian Nationals and Hassan Tourabih Kintosa, an Ugandan National. Upon interrogation, the six admitted that they were on their way to join al Shabaab after being recruited and facilitated by their handlers from Tanzania and Uganda respectively. They were arrested in Garissa by security officers who…

State House chief of staff Felix Koskei has expressed concern over criminal elements extorting money from public servants using his name. On Friday, Koskei, who also serves as Head of the Public Service, released a statement in which he claimed that the “crooks” have been roaming around government offices taunting senior civil workers in exchange for monetary favors. Koskei went on to say that the con artists have been picking on poor Kenyans looking for employment and government services. He asked the heads of parastatals, principal secretaries, and cabinet secretaries to report such incidents to the appropriate authorities for action.…

Two bar attendants were Thursday arrested over the murder of a man whose body was found on the roadside in Tassia, Nairobi. The body was found by locals and had blood oozing from the mouth and ears. It had a head injury and a deep cut on the upper side of the face. It emerged the man was beaten up at a local bar leading to his death. This followed a disagreement over a bill. The two attendants who were linked to the death were arrested for processing to face murder charges, police said. Elsewhere, a beggar was lynched by…

Environment, Climate Change and Forestry Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya said her ministry is in the process of streamlining charcoal trade in the country to ensure that it is conducted lawfully and in an environmentally sustainable manner by putting in place appropriate legal safeguards. “We also commit to decriminalize charcoal trade, modernize and commercialize the charcoal value chain; promote youth-owned and operated briquette making enterprises and support the scaling up of clean cooking,” Tuya said. Speaking during the signing of 2023 to 2024 financial year performance contracts with principal secretaries and chairmen of parastatals under her ministry at the Kenya Meteorological…

The government Thursday unmasked the faces behind Worldcoin activities in Kenya even as it revealed the cryptocurrency firm is not licensed to operate in the country. The revelation came just a day after Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki suspended the firm’s activities in Kenya to pave the way for a probe into the legality of its operations. He Thursday appeared before Parliament to among other issues state the precautionary steps taken by the government on the already mined data. “The aforesaid entity is not registered as a legal entity in Kenya.” “Preliminary investigations reveal that the entity has hired a…

Former US President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty in a Washington DC court to conspiring to overturn his 2020 election defeat. During a short arraignment, he spoke softly to confirm his not-guilty plea, name, age and that he was not under the influence of any substances. He later told reporters the case was “persecution of a political opponent”. It marks the former president’s third appearance in four months as a criminal defendant. BBC said Mr Trump entered through a backdoor of the courthouse on Thursday afternoon in the centre of the nation’s capital, just yards from the scene of…

Some 283 Kenyan migrant workers have died in the Gulf in the last three years, Labour and Social Protection Cabinet Secretary Florence Bore has revealed. Bore while appearing before Parliament on Wednesday told MPS that the deaths had been recorded in the period between January 2020 and November 2022. Bore was responding to questions by legislators on the status of Kenyans in the Gulf amid hue and cry over mistreatment. She said 185 Kenyans lost their lives in the Saudi Arabia Kingdom between January 2020 and November 2022. Some 48 of the deaths were reported in 2020, 60 in 2021…

Police have recovered part of a subsidized fertilizer consignment meant for Kirinyaga farmers. Reports indicate that 1500 of the 5000 bags of fertilizer were found at a home owned by Kirinyaga Senator Kamau Murango. Senator Murango apparently bought the home in the recent past. President William Ruto on Wednesday announced the second phase of the fertilizer subsidy program. As a result, a 50-kg bag of fertilizer will now cost Sh2,500, down from Sh3,500. Dr Ruto said the affordable fertilizer will boost crop production in the coming short rain season. He encouraged farmers to double the use of the subsidized fertilizers…

A Nairobi court on Thursday allowed the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) application to withdraw a case against Former governor Ali Bunow Korane. In its application, the prosecution told the court that it was satisfied that no public finances had been misappropriated adding that it had no desire to continue with the case against the the former county boss. Magistrate Zipporah Gichana okayed the withdrawal after the DPP said they had established that all the projects earmarked to be financed by the funds subject to the court case had been delivered as intended. Korane was in 2021 charged with misappropriation…

A former Makueni County MCA has been charged with threatening to kill his successor claiming he stole his 2022 victory. Denis Wambua Masavu, former Kisau/Kiteta Ward MCA in Mbooni Sub-County Makueni County was on Thursday arraigned in a Nairobi Court and was charged with threatening to kill the incumbent. Wambua is said to have threatened to kill Denis Kioko Mainga claiming he (Kioko) stole his victory in 2022 general elections and bribed a Makueni Court to rule in his favor. According to the charge sheet, Wambua on March 11,2023 at Mbooni in Makueni County, without lawful excuse uttered words to…

A suspect who stabbed and killed a policewoman in her house in Umasaini area, Mashruu, Kajiado County was arrested hours later in Nairobi. The suspect was arrested in Mathare slums where he was hiding hours after he had escaped from the scene of crime. Locals in the slum saw him and alerted police on Thursday before they arrested him, Nairobi police boss Adamson Bungei said. Bungei said the suspect will be sent to Mashru where he will be processed for arraignment. He identified the suspect as John Mutinda. The body of constable Dianah Mwende attached to the Railways police SGR…

The Law Society of Kenya wants the Inspector General of Police to provide information regarding the arrest status of those who allegedly breached the law during anti government demos. It also wants the police to furnish them with any documents relating to the postmortem and cause of the death of those who died as a result of the protests. Similarly, LSK seeks to be provided with the names of the persons killed since the start of the anti-government protests. In a letter dated July 31, LSK president Eric Theuri based the request on Article 35 of the Constitution. Read: Police Deployed…

In response to the government’s decision to halt operations after weeks of collecting biometric data in exchange for cryptocurrency tokens, Alex Blania, co-founder of the contentious tech company WorldCoin, has finally spoken. Blania asserted in a statement that their business practices were ethical and that the World ID system they are developing is a safe and secure way to preserve data. With the use of the World ID, one can demonstrate their individuality and personhood while staying anonymous. A device called the Orb scans the users’ irises as part of the technology. Read: What is the Craze About Worldcoin Cryptocurrency Data…

Police are investigating an incident in which the body of a policewoman was found in a pool of blood in her house Umasaini area, Mashruu, Kajiado County. The body of constable Diana Mwende attached to the Railways police SGR Emali was found in the house on Wednesday, August 2 night after a murder incident, police said. She had been stabbed in the neck and face and left in a pool of blood, witnesses and police said. A suspect behind the murder incident is at large after he managed to escape from the scene while armed with the killer weapon- a…

Two police officers were arrested Wednesday over a robbery case with violence in which victims lost Sh500,000 in Juja, Kiambu County. They were arrested as they returned to a scene of a robbery with violence they had been involved in earlier on, police said. The officers attached to Kamukunji police in Nairobi were arrested by their Juja counterparts as they revisited a scene they had earlier robbed two men of more than Sh500,000 when they were arrested. The initial robbery happened on July 31 along Kenyatta Road, police said. A victim, Robinson Mogaka who is a student at the Machakos…