Author: Wycliffe Nyamasege

At least 24 County Assemblies have voted to pass the BBI Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020, paving way for its debate in Parliament. In the latest update, Kirinyaga is the 25th County Assembly to pass the proposal to amend the Constitution through the Building Bridges Initiative, surpassing the 24 threshold required before the Bill can be transmitted to the Senate and National Assembly. Other County Assemblies that voted on “Super” Tuesday to pass the Bill include; Kakamega, Nyamira, Nyandarua, Nyeri, Lamu, Machakos, Murang’a, Bungoma, Kitui, Taita Taveta, Narok, Garissa and Nakuru. Others that recently voted to pass the Bill…

Mathira Member of Parliament Rigathi Gachagua has moved to court to stop what he terms as impending arrest over fraud allegations. Kahawa Tungu understands that the embattled MP is also seeking anticipatory bail should the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) go-ahead to press charges against him in relation to investigations on his accounts over claims of money laundering. In his application, the MP, through lawyer Simon Mburu, accuses the state of political persecution, linking his woes to his association with Deputy President William Ruto. “I have a genuine fear that I will soon be…

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party has told off National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition co-principals for labelling Raila Odinga a political conman who can’t be trusted. Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka and his Amani National Congress (ANC) counterpart Musalia Mudavadi had on Sunday hit out at the ODM leader over remarks that he won’t endorse them for presidency in 2022 for skipping his January 30, 2018 swearing-in as the People’s President. The two leaders accused the former Prime Minister of deceit, claiming he had duped them into supporting his candidature in 2017 under the NASA coalition that also comprised of Ford…

Ugandan opposition politician Robert Kyagulantyi better known as Bobi Wine has withdrawn a petition challenging the re-election of President Yoweri Museveni for a sixth term. In a press statement on Monday, Wine, who contested for presidency on the National Unity Platform (NUP) party ticket, protested what he termed as bias by the Supreme Court Judges in Uganda. The 38-year-old said the judges recently rejected his application to table more evidence linking Museveni, 76, to poll fraud, without a “substantial reason”. “It’s clear that Alfonse Owiny-Dollo (Uganda’s Chief Justice and Head of the Supreme Court) and members of this court are…

The Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) has promised to review its infrastructure in all wildlife parks across the country as part of efforts to promote safety of wild animals. The company swang into action on Monday after three Rothschild giraffes were electrocuted at Soysambu Conservancy in Nakuru County over the weekend. The endangered species of giraffes were electrocuted while moving along a low-hanging local power transmission line within the vast conservancy. The incident caused an uproar especially after conservationists revealed that close to 11 endangered giraffes have so far been electrocuted since 2019, forcing Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) to…

Two gunmen were on Sunday night arrested after a fierce shootout with police at Merti area in Isiolo County. According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), detectives patrolling Duma-Yamicha Road spotted two suspicious Toyota Probox vehicles before signalling the occupants to stop. Instead of stopping the occupants sped off. A hot pursuit ensued, before two occupants in one of the cars identified as Abdi Fatah Ibrahim and Yusuf Mohamed opened fire at the officers, a move that triggered an exchange of rapid shots in self-defence. Read: Wanted Marsabit MCA Surrenders To Police, Handed To Anti-terror Unit For Grilling The…

Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi has launched a scathing attack against former Prime Minister Raila Odinga accusing him of political conmanship. While responding to the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader’s recent remarks that he won’t endorse any of the National Super Alliance (NASA) co-principals in the 2022 presidential election, Mudavadi now accuses Raila of going against his own vow. “The statement by Raila Odinga that he’ll not endorse any of his NASA colleagues because they failed to show up at his illegal swearing-in is unfortunate and reeks of indefensible deceit, ” Mudavadi’s Spokesperson Kibisu Kabatesi said in a…

Six more patients have succumbed to Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, raising Kenya’s fatalities to 1,823, the Ministry of Health announced on Sunday. At the same time, 208 more people have tested positive for the virus out of a sample size of 3,415. The number of confirmed positive cases in the country is now at 104,201. “The cumulative tests so far conducted are 1,265,773,” a statement issued by Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe reads. Of the new cases, 173 are Kenyans while 35 are foreigners. Read: MPs Stunned As Woman Explains How She Walked Into Kemsa Offices, Left With…

Former Nation and Capital FM Presenter Jack Ojiambo is dead. The jazz music enthusiast’s death was announced on Sunday afternoon by Capital FM. However, the cause of his death is yet to be revealed. Ojiambo, a lawyer by profession, founded and hosted popular “Jazz Club” show at Capital FM for 17 years, from 1996 to 2013. https://twitter.com/CapitalFMKenya/status/1363438137909932035?s=20 “It is with great sadness we mourn the passing of former Capital FM Jazz Club presenter and pioneer Jack Ojiambo, ” the Chris Kirubi-owned station wrote on Twitter. After quitting Capital FM, Ojiambo found a new home at Nation FM in November 2014,…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has renewed calls for Tanzania to shelve an unconventional approach to the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a statement shared on his Twitter page on Sunday, expressed concerns over recent deaths in the country linked to the virus. https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1363233365273501697?s=20 This week, Tanzania lost two top government officials who are said to have succumbed to COVID-19. Zanzibar First Vice President Seif Sharif Hamad died on Wednesday morning aged 77. On the same say, Tanzanian authorities announced the passing on of Chief Secretary of the State John William Kijazi…

A Form Four student at Kaputir Mixed Secondary School in Turkana South died on Saturday after allegedly drinking a hand sanitiser. Five other students reportedly became visually impaired after drinking the liquid applied to the hands for the purpose of removing common pathogens (disease-causing organisms). The six students are aged between 16 and 17 years. The product rich in alcohol became popular with the outbreak of Coronavirus in the country in March last year. Speaking to K24 TV, one of the students, who aspires to become a medical doctor, expressed his fears that “my stupidity” could shatter the dreams. Read:…

Relentless search efforts for missing 38-year-old businesswoman Caroline Wanjiku Maina ended on Friday with the discovery of her body at Kajiado hospital mortuary. Four suspects, who were arrested after the real estate marketer went missing, are reported to have led detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to a crime scene in a Kajiado thicket, where they had dumped the deceased’s body, before the sleuths traced her remains to the morgue. Wanjiku went missing on February 12. A report filed at Muthangari Police Station on February 13, a day after Wanjiku went missing, indicates that the deceased’s Toyota Axio…

President Uhuru Kenyatta has given an indication that the Kazi Mtaani Program scheduled to end on March 4 won’t be scrapped. Speaking in Kayole on Friday after launching Soweto Hospital commissioned by the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS), the Head of State said he had been approached by youth from Kiambu and Nairobi counties on the possibility of the program being extended. “When I was in Uthiru and Kiamaiko, and here, the youth have said they want Kazi Mtaani back, do you agree with them? Let’s see what we will do to have the program back, ” the President said. The…

National carrier Kenya Airways (KQ) was on Friday forced to respond following claims of poor customer service after over 50 Kenyans were left stranded at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, USA, since Sunday, February 14. Lanji Ouko Awori claimed, in a tweet on Thursday, that the airline had been cancelling flights from Sunday, with no communication to the passengers. “Fly directly from Newyork with KQ at your own peril! Customer Service is non-existent, on day 3 arguing with a wall because there is no customer service,” Awori tweeted. Awori claimed that the passengers’ Covid-19 certificates…

Six Ugandan soldiers have been sentenced to up to three months in prison for brutalising members of the press, who were covering opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine. Multiple media reports indicate that seven journalists were seriously injured after they were attacked by military and police officers while covering the opposition figure, who was delivering his petition to United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) offices in Kololo, Kampala, on Wednesday. Wine, 38, moved to the Supreme Court early this month seeking to nullify results of the January 14 presidential election maintaining that President Yoweri Museveni rigged the…