Kitengela hawkers reap big during electioneering period
The electioneering era has been a lucrative business season for Kitengela hawkers, who now operate without restrictions on time. Ordinarily, hawkers in the populous town operate from 3:00 pm, but in the recent past, they have been opening their businesses from as early as 6:00 am till late in the evening. Elated hawkers say despite […]
Kitengela: Woman’s burning body found in her apartment
A youthful woman is suspected to have been brutally murdered and her body set on fire in her apartment in Kitengela. Nicholas Omondi, the flat caretaker, says they were forced to break into the woman’s house on Thursday morning June 30 2022, after spotting smoke billowing from her apartment. “There was a huge black smoke […]
Kitengela: Two confirmed dead, 17 escape after building collapses
Two people have been confirmed dead after a building under construction collapsed, with 17 others escaping death by a whisker. In the 10 am incident in the EPZ area of Kitengela, one block of a three-storey building tumbled down to the chagrin of the workers at the site during the incident. The building within a […]
Kitengela residents raise concern over possible donkey meat in local butcheries
Kitengela residents are worried over a possible black market of donkey meat on sale at meat outlets following rampant Donkey theft in the area. This comes amid concerns of hawking of cheap meat in the town which enjoys lucrative meat business due to high demand from the neighboring of Nairobi, Kiambu and Machakos. The donkey […]
‘Depressed’ nurse goes missing in Kitengela
A family in Nyamira is distressed after its member went missing in September 2021. Delphine Monyangi Achoki, a nurse by profession, was last seen outside her office in Kitengela, Kajiado County. Speaking to K24 Digital, her sister Paula Achoki said that Delphine had in the past been diagnosed with depression. “My sister has been going […]
Six robbery with violence suspects arrested in Kitengela
Security apparatus drawn from Isinya, Kajiado County have nabbed six notorious criminals who have been terrorizing residents of Kitengela and its environs. The six suspects including Burundi and Tanzanian nationals are believed to have been masterminds and ring leaders of the spate of robbery with violence that has been on the rise in the last […]
EPZ workers protest over alleged unlawful dismissals
Export Processing Zone Authority (EPZA) workers’ unrest over alleged unlawful dismissals entered day two. More than 4,000 workers in one of the garment-making companies ( Hela intimate) staged protests over an alleged scheme they say is aimed at denying them service payment fee. In dramatic scenes, on Tuesday, protesting workers were locked inside the company […]