Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

The prosecution told a court that it had yet to receive a medical report from Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) regarding the mental status of an accused person. Kennedy Kalombotole is accused of killing two patients at KNH in February and July 2025. The court heard that although the defence had presented a medical report indicating that the accused is unfit to stand trial, the report was not from a government facility as required by law. Lawyers for the prosecution submitted that while the defence report was prepared by a professor, and there is no doubt that he is a qualified…

The Board of Directors of the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) appointed Eng. Luka Kipchumba Kimeli as the Authority’s new Director General, effective February 17, 2026. The announcement was made following consultations with the Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Roads and Transport. According to the Board, the appointment followed a competitive and transparent recruitment process conducted in accordance with the Kenya Roads Act, 2007 and other applicable public service procedures. Eng. Kimeli brings 27 years of experience in infrastructure development, strategic programme delivery, and public sector leadership within Kenya’s roads subsector. His extensive background is expected to bolster KeNHA’s…

Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has strongly opposed the newly signed “cooperation agreement” between President William Ruto and Johnson Sakaja, terming it unconstitutional, opaque, and a veiled takeover of Nairobi City County functions by the National Government. Speaking a day after the signing ceremony at State House, Sifuna argued that the agreement violates constitutional provisions governing devolution and was executed without public participation. Sifuna urged both the President and Governor Sakaja to suspend the agreement in the public interest and uphold constitutional safeguards. “We want development, but only if undertaken in strict accordance with the Constitution. That is the foundation of…

A miner who had intruded into a gold mining tunnel died after being trapped by a wall in Kitere, Rongo, Migori County. Police and the site’s Chinese owners said a group of intruders had invaded their shaft via an illegal tunnel when the incident occurred on February 17. The suspected accomplices of the deceased later ran riot at the site and destroyed property after learning about his death. Police said the deceased, identified as Enock Omwami, 30, was not an employee at the site. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations. Cases of deaths at mining…

A dispute between two brothers over a piece of land in a village in Mukurweini, Nyeri County turned fatal when one of them was fatally strangled. The incident happened on February 17 in Wamutitu village, Murunduini sub-location police said adding Patrick Mwaniki, 53, was strangled in the drama. This was after he had slashed 200 coffee plants, 60 stems of bananas, 60 trees and ten yams on a piece of land. He then confronted his brother, prompting a fight. Police said the deceased first hit and wounded his brother in the arm before the victim retaliated and strangled him to…

A total of 8,433,437 units (kWh) of electricity were consumed in 2025 to charge electric vehicles (EVs), as Kenyans increasingly embrace electric mobility. Data from Kenya Power indicates that this represents a 188% increase in electricity consumption by the electric mobility (e-mobility) industry, compared to 2,922,692 units (kWh) consumed by this customer category in 2024. The increased electricity consumption led to Sh125,956, 835 growth in revenue to from this growing customer segment, from Sh64,843,181 in 2024 to Sh190,800,016 earned in 2025. “E-mobility is one of the key areas the Company is focused on under our green agenda, which seeks to…

Authorities have launched investigations into an alleged Sh10 million revenue diversion scheme at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH), in which an employee is suspected of manipulating the government’s eCitizen payment platform and the hospital’s internal billing systems. The suspect, identified as Jane Wangari Wachira, is alleged to have colluded with an external accomplice, Khamisi Hussein Akida, to exploit gaps in the hospital’s billing and reconciliation processes between January 1, 2025 and February 9, 2026. Preliminary findings indicate that patient bills were marked as cleared in the system, while payments were allegedly redirected to personal accounts instead of the hospital’s…

Sleuths from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations’ Operation Support Unit (OSU) arrested a second suspect in connection with the laundering of USD 217,900 believed to be proceeds of a gold scam that targeted an American national. The suspect, Mohammed Noor Muhyadhin Mohammed, a Nairobi-based businessman and sole proprietor of Mohazcom Trading, was apprehended as investigators intensified their probe into what authorities describe as a well-coordinated fraud scheme. His arrest follows the earlier arraignment of Willis Onyango Wasonga, alias Marcus, who appeared before the Milimani Law Courts on February 16, 2026. Wasonga faces multiple charges, including conspiracy to defraud and obtaining…

Kenya officially announced the introduction of a groundbreaking long-acting injectable HIV prevention drug, Lenacapavir, marking a major milestone in the country’s fight against new infections. The Ministry of Health said the new Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) option will provide HIV-negative individuals with six months of protection per dose, offering an alternative to daily prevention pills. Kenya currently has an HIV prevalence of about 3.7 per cent, with approximately 1.34 million people on antiretroviral treatment. Of growing concern, 41 per cent of new HIV infections occur among young people below the age of 24. The cargo with the drug arrived at the…

Spain’s leftist government on Tuesday said it would ask prosecutors to investigate X, Meta and TikTok for possible offences related to AI-generated child pornography, as an international backlash grows against such tools. Separate probes in Britain, France, the European Union and California have been launched over sexualised deepfakes created by X’s AI chatbot Grok and amid a wider debate about regulating artificial intelligence. Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on X that his government would request the public prosecutor’s office to investigate the three tech platforms for offences “they may be committing by creating and spreading child pornography through their…

Adani Enterprises said on Tuesday that it will invest Sh12.9 trillion ($100 billion) to build renewable-powered AI-ready data centres by 2035, positioning India as a contender in the global AI race. India has seen a surge in big-ticket AI infrastructure spending, with global players like Google, Amazon, Meta Platforms and Microsoft ramping up investments along with domestic companies such as Reliance and TCS. “AI-ready data centres would be a critical nerve centre of the AI-driven environment and it’s natural that large groups with deep pockets will get future-ready by setting up such data centres,” said Ambareesh Baliga, an independent market…

At least five suspected robbers were lynched by an angry mob in Koitaburot, Soin Sigowet after robbing a Sacco treasurer of Sh1.1 million moments after he withdrew from a bank in Muhoroni. Police said the gang trailed the victim before ambushing him and attempting to flee using the West Valley Sugar Road in Kericho County. He raised an alarm alerting a mob that joined the hunt on the attackers. Attempts by the gang to flee after staging the robbery was thwarted as residents who got wind of the situation swung into action. They stoned them to death. Police officers who…

When Jelena returns home from a “holiday of a lifetime” travelling around South America later this year, she faces being told she can no longer enter the UK. The British-Latvian dual national is among those who say they have been caught out by upcoming changes to passport rules for dual nationals, which are due to kick in on 25 February. Entry requirements for dual nationals are being overhauled as part of sweeping changes to the immigration system the government says will streamline and modernise the UK border. But for Jelena, who has lived in the UK for 16 years, the…

A glove discovered as part of the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping has produced no DNA matches, authorities in Pima County, Arizona, say. Found approximately two miles from Guthrie’s home, the glove appeared to match one that can be seen on the hand of a suspect in doorbell-camera footage taken the night she went missing. DNA from the glove was sent for testing on Thursday, but produced no matches in CODIS, the FBI’s database of DNA from known offenders. Nancy Guthrie, the 84 year-old mother of news anchor Savannah Guthrie, has been missing since 1 February, when investigators believe she…

President William Ruto Tuesday, challenged universities not only to be incubators of solutions to local problems, but also those facing the African continent and the world. He noted that local institutions of higher learning must be active participants in search of solutions to pressing global problems of the day. He spoke during the first graduation ceremony of the National Intelligence and Research University (NIRU) in Loresho, Nairobi. “I want to challenge this university to go beyond so that progressively we change from the phase “African Solutions to African Problems” to a new one: “African Solutions to National and Global Problems,”…