Tag: Garissa County

Shock in Garisa after police retrieve body of man from Tana River whose hands, legs together with a huge stone were tied to his back

Residents of a village in Garisa County are in shock after one Barisa Abubakar, a dairy village elder, reported to the police at around 1130hrs that he saw a dead body floating in Tana River within Young Muslim area. “Officers from Iftin police station headed by the OCS proceeded to the scene and the following […]

Chebukati declares Abdul Haji duly-elected Garissa senator

Haji becomes third politician to be elected unopposed in a by-election after Moses Kuria and Musalia Mudavadi.

Three men arrested with 9 AK-47 rifles and 2,104 bullets

Three Somalia nationals are in police custody after they were seized by police and found with 9 guns and thousands of bullets.

Ex-Garissa Finance minister now lives in his mother’s rural home as family strains with expensive medical care

Idriss Mukhtar now lives in his mother’s house in Garissa County after family moved him from Nairobi, citing expensive medical care.

Haji reveals new evidence in Governor Ali Korane’s Sh233m corruption case

Ali Korane was charged alongside 4 county officials with eight counts of conspiracy to commit an economic crime.

Woman arrested after policeman dies in her house

The woman was detained after she went to the Garissa Police Station to report the death of a policeman she had been cohabiting with.

KDF soldiers, police officer seriously injured after mistaking each other for terrorists

Constable Emmanuel Ngao was challenged by two KDF soldiers on patrol and he immediately opened fire after mistaking them for militants.