Author: Wycliffe Nyamasege

Fish from Lake Nakuru is unfit for human consumption. This is according to a report released by the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KEMFRI) on Tuesday. Studies conducted by KEMRI revealed that Tilapia and other fish from the lake were rotting within three hours after being caught. Consumers interviewed, KEMRI said, also complained of skin rashes. The research institute concluded that consumption of fish from the water body will have serious health effects on consumers. Read: Captain Apollo Malowa Was Intoxicated During the Deadly Lake Nakuru Crash – Report Consequently, the Ministry of Agriculture directed the Nakuru county government…

A total of 1.14 million signatures supporting the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2020, have been verified by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), the commission announced on Tuesday. This is out of the 4.4 million signatures that were submitted to the electoral body by the BBI secretariat on December 10, 2020. “As at 19th January 2021, the Commission had been able to digitize 1,715,386 records which were subjected to verification exercise involving completeness and validity checks of the individual records; elimination of duplicate records; and finally matching the clean records with the register of voters, “…

Kenyan national Mansur Mohammed alias Mansour has been extradited to the United States months after he was nabbed in Mombasa for ivory, rhinoceros horns and drug trafficking. Audrey Strauss, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced on Monday that Mansour, 60, arrived in the US on Monday morning. The accused was arrested by Kenyan authorities on July 29, 2020, shortly after arriving from Yemen, on charges of conspiracy to traffic in rhinoceros horns and elephant ivory, both endangered wildlife species, which involved the illegal poaching of more than approximately 35 rhinoceros and more than 100 elephants. He…

Police in Embu are holding 10 students accused of torching a dormitory at Kiambere Secondary School. According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), nine students from the school were taken into custody after the main suspect linked them to the Sunday incident. The 17-year-old male student was arrested on Monday following an identification parade, after detectives discovered that he had prior to the incident sent a pupil at from a neighboring primary school to buy him a matchbox. “The suspect is cooperating well with our investigators and so far, he has revealed names of nine other students with whom…

Ugandan opposition politician Bobi Wine and his wife Barbara Itungo are still under house arrest hours after the High Court declared their continued detention illegal. In a tweet on Monday afternoon, Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, said the military and police officers surrounding his residence are yet to vacate as ordered by the court. “The High Court ruled this morning that my continued house arrest (11 days now) is illegal & unconstitutional. Several hours later, the military still surrounds my home, blocking access to all! Perhaps (as always) waiting for Gen. Museveni’s orders on the next course of…

The High Court in Uganda has ordered army and police officers surrounding opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine’s home to leave. In a ruling delivered on Monday, the court declared the continued detention of  Wine and his wife unlawful and unconstitutional. The popstar-turned-politicians and member of the National Unity Platform (NUP) party has been under house arrest since Uganda went to the polls on January 14, 2021. The military surrounding his home kept everyone away including NUP officials and the media. On January 18, US ambassador to Uganda Natalie Brown was turned away after an attempt to see Wine.…

Nandi Governor Stephen Sang has been charged with an additional charge of assault in a case in which he had been charged with malicious destruction of property and incitement over the uprooting of tea bushes at Kibwari estate in 2019. Sang, who was charged afresh in a Kisumu court on Monday, pleaded not guilty to all the three charges before Senior Magistrate Berly Omolo. Sang, armed with a power saw, was caught on camera cutting down tea bushes planted on the land said to have been grabbed. Read: Nandi Governor Stephen Sang Arrested As Police Lob Teargas To Disperse Supporters…

Police in Nairobi are holding a suspected terrorist busted taking photos of Makongeni Police Station located in Makadara Sub-county, Nairobi. In a police report seen by this writer, the suspect identified as Augustine Juma, 34, was arrested on Saturday morning after being spotted taking photos of Makongeni Police motor vehicle registration number GK A 318. The officers confiscated his phone and on perusal of the device’s gallery, the men in uniform found photos of Central Bank, Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Headquarters and Israel Embassy. Other photos found in the device include those of Jogoo road police station and pictures…

Four more patients have succumbed to Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, raising Kenya’s cumulative fatalities to 1,744. At the same time, 85 more people have tested positive for the virus, out of a sample size of 2,985 tested in the same period. In a statement to newsrooms on Sunday, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the total confirmed positive cases are now 99,983. The cumulative tests so far conducted are 1,156,106. From the new cases, 69 are Kenyans while 16 are foreigners. 46 are female and 39 male. The Youngest is a one-year-old baby while the oldest is aged…

Chesamisi Boys High School in Bungoma County has been closed indefinitely following student riots last night. The students, who were protesting changes in the institution’s entertainment programme, destroyed property of unknown value during the Saturday 11pm strike. A computer lab and two vehicles, one of which belonged to the school principal, were destroyed during the incident. Speaking to members of the press, the school principal Christopher Serem said signs of unrest among students began in January last year with the learners complaining of lack of entertainment among other things. In March the same year, the students, mostly Form Fours staged…

The 18-month-old niece of Bobi Wine’s wife Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi has been evacuated from the Ugandan opposition politician’s residence where she spent days with the family currently under house arrest. Bobi Wine, born Robert Kyagulanyi, confirmed to CNN’s Becky Anderson, in a recent interview, that the minor was evacuated on Friday after the military officers surrounding his home allowed his lawyers to visit him briefly. “I’m glad to inform the world that the baby was evacuated yesterday when my lawyers were very briefly allowed to come in,” he said. Wine, who has been under house arrest for more than a…

Kenyans eyeing ODM party ticket in the 2022 race to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta have been given a way forward on how to make their applications. In a notice published in the local dailies on Sunday, the party’s National Elections Board (NEB) Chairperson Catherine Mumma said interested candidates must pay Ksh1 million non-refundable fee to ODM bank account. To be eligible for consideration, one must be a Kenyan citizen by birth, a registered voter, a life member of the Party and a holder of a degree from a university recognized in Kenya. The applicant must also be of high moral…

Senate Majority Whip Irungu Kang’ata has accused Kenya’s anti-corruption watchdog of being used to settle political scores. This is after it emerged that the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission (EACC) had launched a probe into his law firm over dealings with the Nairobi County government. The Murang’a Senator’s law firm is among 25 companies being investigated by EACC over multi-million dealings in payment of legal fees between 2013 and 2020. In a letter addressed to the Nairobi County Secretary, EACC wants City Hall to furnish it with specific case files handled by the 25 law firms for the last seven years,…

Albert Lelei Ntuitai, a former police officer, has been arrested in connection with the murder of late Chief Inspector Henry Odongo Sindani, after four years on the run. Before his macabre killing on June 26, 2016, the late Chief Inspector Odongo was the OCS Muthithi Police Station in Kigumo, Murang’a County. According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the suspect then a Police driver had on the said date, walked into the station’s report office, picked a quarrel with his boss before shooting him nine times in cold blood. Read: Lawyer Among Three Suspects Arrested As Sleuths Bust Online…

Award-winning US music producer Khaled Mohamed Khaled, better known by his stage name DJ Khaled, will not be visiting Uganda next month as had been anticipated. The 45-year-old had been picked to host the MTV Africa Music Awards Kampala 2021 (MAMA), an event that will be going down on Saturday, February 20, 2021, amid the Covid-19 menace. https://twitter.com/MTVBaseEast/status/1352559160831995904?s=20 Contrary to viral claims on social media that Khaled will be flying to the East African County, Kahawa Tungu has established that the media personality will host the virtual awards ceremony from his glamourous home in Miami, Florida, alongside African co-emcees for…