Tag: Kenya news

Shock as body of 2-year-old boy found dumped in stream three days after going missing

Residents of Kanjathara Kutus in Kirinyaga County are reeling in grief after the body of a 2-year-old boy was discovered floating in the water at a nearby stream. The body was found three days after the boy disappeared mysteriously from his home in Mjini area within Kutus town. His mother Caroline Wanjiru says his little […]

45-year-old Kirinyaga man killed, body stashed in sack then dumped at river bank

Police in Kirinyaga County have launched investigations to establish how a 45-year-old man was murdered and body dumped at the banks of River Nyamindi in Mûrûri, Mwea Constituency. Confirming the incident, Mwea East Subcounty Police Commander Daniel Kitavi said that the body which had been stashed in a sack had multiple injuries in the head. […]

OKA principal Moses Wetangula accused of stealing dogs

Bungoma Senator and One Kenya Alliance principal Moses Wetangula has been accused of failing to pay a farmer after he supplied him with dogs. James Isokat says he supplied the senator with well-trained and microchipped German shepherd dogs at his Karen residence on June 11, 2021, but the legislator has not paid him in full. […]

DCI launch manhunt for robbery with violence suspects in Mombasa

Detectives drawn from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have launched a manhunt for the prime suspects in a robbery with violence in Mombasa. In a statement, the DCI says that earlier today, the suspects luckily escaped the wrath of irate villagers of Toa Tugawe village, in Kisauni Mombasa County. They are believed to be […]

Five suspected kidnappers escape lynching by a whisker in Kitengela

Five men alleged to have kidnapped a middle-aged man escaped death by a whisker over the weekend after Kitengela Bodaboda riders blocked their vehicle when one of the occupants raised a distress call. The drama unfolded when the victim lowered a window of a personal vehicle and raised an alarm requesting help from other motorists […]

Covid-19 Update: 8,877 test positive as positivity rate stands at 13.8%

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has reported that 1,225 people tested positive of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. In a statement to newsrooms on Saturday, August 14, MOH said that the 1,225 tested positive out of a sample of 8,877 patients. “Total confirmed positive cases are now 219,938 and cumulative tests so far conducted […]

We will bring him back – Lawyer Ahmednassir speaks after deportation of businessman Harun Aydin

Lawyer Ahmednassir Abdulahi has called out the government over the deportation of Turkish national Harun Aydin. Speaking on Monday, August 9, Ahmednassir said that, by deporting the Turk, the government was using the criminal justice system to frustrate Deputy President William Ruto. “A government that uses the criminal justice system for political ends is terrible […]