Author: Wycliffe Nyamasege

A section of principals of the One Kenya Alliance (OKA) on Sunday stormed out of ANC’s National Delegates Convention (NDC) organised by party leader Musalia Mudavadi. Kalonzo Musyoka of Wiper party and his KANU counterpart Gideon Moi walked out after learning that Deputy President William Ruto had been invited to the event. The duo was in the company of their new ally businessman Jimi Wanjigi. Kahawa Tungu understands that Mudavadi, who has been endorsed to vie for the presidency by Amani National Congress, is set to team up with Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party ahead of the August General…

A 31-year-old teacher has been arrested for spreading misinformation on Facebook. Jeremiah Mwavuganga Samuel, a teacher at Musiini Primary in Makueni County, is said to have authored a Facebook post using a fake account purporting to be that of the Teachers Service Commission and alleging that the commission’s Chief Executive Officer Nancy Macharia was dead. He was arrested at the county’s Makutano Shopping centre in Nzaui on Saturday. https://twitter.com/DCI_Kenya/status/1485155018374324231?s=20 According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Mwavuganga’s pursuit and subsequent arrest followed an extensive forensic analysis to identify the suspect. The operation was conducted by DCI Emali and the…

Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile, the Governor of the Bank of Uganda, is dead. Mutebile breathed his last on Sunday morning at a Nairobi hospital where he was receiving treatment, Deputy Governor Micheal Atingi-Ego confirmed. The governor, who passed on at the age of 72, was flown to Kenya on December 31, 2021, after he collapsed due to complications related to diabetes. Read: How President Uhuru Convinced Uganda’s Museveni to Accept the Possibility of a Raila Presidency Kahawa Tungu understands that he had been in and out of hospital in recent years for the same complications. The seasoned professional economist has served…

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are holding the husband of the waitress whose body was found stashed in a suitcase dumped outside the GSU Reece Squad gate in Kimbo area, Kiambu County. Kahawa Tungu understands that the police are treating Simon Ngugi as the prime suspect in Esther Wambui’s murder. The arrest was effected after detectives obtained mobile phone conversations between Ngige and the deceased, Ruiru, Director of Criminal Investigations Officer (DCIO) Justus Ombati confirmed. Wambui was apparently accosted by unknown people as she walked to her place of work on the morning of January 17. On…

Two children, who survived a road accident that claimed the lives of their parents and three siblings, are stuck in hospital after their uncle took over their home in Mombasa. Kahawa Tungu understands that the two surviving boys of the Bundi family aged 10 and 3 years are stranded at the Coast General Hospital in Mombasa after their uncle refused to accommodate them at their family home despite having been discharged. Ronald Bundi’s brother is said to have locked the house in an alleged tussle over ownership of the property. Bundi perished alongside his wife Veronica and their three daughters…

Kenya’s leading media company, Royal Media Services (RMS), has asked members of its staff who are eyeing elective seats in the August general election to resign. In a memo on Thursday, RMS Managing Director Wachira Waruru directed the affected group of journalists to hand in their resignation letters by March 1, 2022. Waruru stated that the directive is part of the company’s policy. “In line with the company’s culture and practice, any employee wishing to contest in any elective position must tender his/her resignation from employment before 1st March 2022,” the memo reads. “If you need any further clarification on…

President Uhuru Kenyatta has banned the sale of scrap metals in the country amid a surge in cases of vandalism. Speaking at the National Police College in Nyeri during a passing out parade, President Kenyatta said the government has halted any exports or dealings in scrap metal until proper guidelines are put in place to regulate the sector. “As of today, we will no longer allow, and we have put a moratorium on the export or the buying or selling of any scrap material until we have put in place proper guidelines that will ensure that material is not coming…

Former Nairobi County Governor Mike Sonko has opened up about his lowest moment during his reign as the city boss. Sonko, in a Facebook post on Thursday, disclosed that he almost took his life at his City Hall office due to what he termed as stress and depression brought about by political wrangles that saw him kicked out of office in December 2020. The firebrand politician said people he trusted as friends incited him to pick a fight with President Uhuru Kenyatta after the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) took over his key functions. The same people, he claimed, instigated his…

Kevin Gesire, the state counsel who allegedly took his own life in Kitui on Tuesday, was a distressed man, it has emerged. The 34-year-old was attached to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in Kitui County. Gesire was found dead in his apartment, hours after partying with his friends. Police, who were alerted by a neighbor, found the deceased’s body dangling from the bathroom window with a belt on his neck. He had on Monday night been involved in a road accident after his car, a BMW 116, rammed into guard rails on his way home after…

A suspected thug was gunned down and five others injured after police officers on patrol busted them attacking a 22-year old student in Nairobi’s Githurai 44 area on Wednesday. According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), John Ndegwa, a student at Kiambu Institute of Science & Technology, was accosted by the gang of six machete-wielding young men, who roughed him up before stealing from him his mobile phone and Sh10,000 in cash. Police said Ndegwa was a visitor in Githurai and he had just dropped his brother’s resume at the Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital, for consideration for a job…

Embattled businessman Jimi Wanjigi has been freed by a Nairobi court after spending last night in custody following his arrest over alleged land fraud. Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Bernard Ochoi ordered Wanjigi be released from custody after the Directorate of Public Prosecutions confirmed that there is an order staying his prosecution. ” I lift warrant of arrest against Wanjigi and order that he be set free and released from custody”, Ochoi ruled on Wednesday afternoon. The court adjourned earlier today to allow verification of the said court order barring Wanjigi’s arrest and prosecution. ” We are satisfied with the order…

Embattled businessman Jimi Wanjigi now claims police sent to arrest him destroyed property worth over Ksh10 million during a raid at his Kwacha Group of Companies offices in Westlands, Nairobi, on Tuesday. Wanjigi made the claims through his lawyer Willis Otieno when he was arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts on Wednesday morning. Otieno submitted that Anti-Terror Police Unit (APTU) officers deployed to arrest the renowned entrepreneur on Tuesday broke into his office causing extensive damage. “They broke into the office and caused damage to property worth more than Ksh10 million. We are still doing assessments to come up with the…

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are investigations circumstances under which a 20-year-old university student died after partying with friends in Juja, Kiambu County. In a suspected crime of passion, Taylon Mbuthia, a second-year student at Kirinyaga University, reportedly died after falling from the third floor of Lantana Apartments in Juja town on Tuesday morning. He died on the spot. Before the tragic incident, the deceased had spent quality time binge drinking with his girlfriend and her other boyfriend. According to the DCI, Mbuthia had on Sunday visited his girlfriend Margaret Nyambura, a first-year student at the Jomo Kenyatta…

Several Members of Parliament allied to Deputy President William Ruto now risk losing their positions in key House Committees in a looming purge. Those targeted are Jubilee lawmakers who have declared support for Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party. In a move aimed at cutting down the country’s second in command to size ahead of the August polls, the party has already opened disciplinary proceedings against the MPs perceived as rebels. The lawmakers include firebrand Laikipia Woman Representative Cate Waruguru, currently serving as the vice-chairperson of the National Assembly’s Agriculture committee. Others are Lunga Lunga MP Khatib Mwashetani, who is…

Normal operations at the Wilson Airport were halted on Tuesday following an order by President Uhuru Kenyatta. Kahawa Tungu understands that the President ordered all planes at the Nairobi-based airport be temporarily grounded moments before visiting Head of State from Hungary, János Áder, boarded a passenger plane out of the city. President Áder was reportedly headed to either Diani or Maasai Mara. There was a last-minute change of plans after President Kenyatta ordered the Kenya Airforce to fly the Head of State to his destination instead of traveling in the passenger plane. Read: Another Safarilink Plane Skids Off Runway At…