Embu: Police launch manhunt for GSU officer who defiled 4-year-old girl
Police are looking for a General Service Unit (GSU) and a decorated boxer who has gone underground after defiling a 4-year-old girl on Tuesday, July 23, 2022, in Kithumu Embu West Sub-County. Officer John Kivuti Njagi based at the GSU headquarters is said to have defiled the girl and disappeared. Investigations were launched and it […]
Embu: Police storm ‘factory’ making illicit brew using sanitary towels
Police in Embu County are looking for a man who was reportedly found making illicit brew using sanitary towels. Police officers raided his factory at Nthawa in Siakago after a tip-off from members of the public that there was an illegal liquor business in the area. A multi-agency team led by Embu County Commissioner Eddysson […]
Embu medics call off strike after court order
Health workers in Embu county have called off their strike after the court declared the industrial action illegal. The health workers’ unions announced the suspension of the strike that has paralysed health services for the last 19 days after an order issued by Justice Njagi Marete of Employment and Labour Relations Court in Nyeri county. […]
Embu county commissioner loses property in market inferno after ugly scuffle between police, bodaboda riders
Embu County commissioner Eddysson Nyale has said he was among the people affected by the inferno that gutted down property worth millions of shillings in Shauri estate, Embu town. When he visited the area to assess the damage, he said it was disheartening to see traders lose such businesses in fire and others depended on […]
Embu: BodaBoda riders set property on fire after ugly scuffle with police
Property worthy millions of shillings have reportedly been gutted down by fire in Embu town following a scuffle between bodaboda riders and police. Angry bodaboda riders demanding the release of two riders who had been arrested in the morning by police staged a demonstration outside Embu town police station before dispersing but later converged and […]
Embu: 2 die in septic tank
Two men who were unblocking a clogged septic tank in Embu on Friday, June 17, 2022, died in the process – police have confirmed. Embu West Subcounty police commander Julius Kyumbule while confirming the incident said the two and another man had been contracted to unblock the sewage. “It is true that two people have […]
Anger as Embu governor reappoints graft suspect to head county treasury
Embu Governor Martin Nyaga Wambora has ignited a loud public disquiet by reshuffling his cabinetbarely two months to the August 9 General Election. Wambora appointed Agriculture Chief Officer Ruth Ndirangu as Chief Officer Finance and Economic Planning in a move that shocked many. Ndirangu was impeached by Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) as Chief […]