The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has appointed new chairpersons and members to six specialised tribunals, with Chief Justice Martha Koome, in her capacity as JSC chairperson, signing the gazette notices that set out the changes for terms of between three and five years. The appointments, gazetted on September 25, 2026, cover the Standards Tribunal, the Competition Tribunal, the Energy and Petroleum Tribunal, the Industrial Property Tribunal, the Micro and Small Enterprises Tribunal and the Retirement Benefits Appeals Tribunal. Four chairpersons were named: John Joseph Wamwara for the Standards Tribunal, Valentine Mwende Mulwa for the Competition Tribunal, Doris Kinya Mwirigi for…
Author: Davin Muthoni
The Court of Appeal has upheld the Affordable Housing Act, 2024 as constitutional, dismissing 42 consolidated petitions that had sought to have the law, and the 1.5 per cent Housing Levy it created, struck down entirely. A five-judge bench comprising Justices Wanjiru Karanja, Patrick Kiage, Aggrey Muchelule, William Korir and George Odunga delivered the ruling in Nairobi on Friday, September 25, 2026, finding no merit in the appeal and upholding the High Court’s earlier determination on most of the issues raised by the petitioners. The judges declined to award costs, citing the public interest nature of the litigation. On the…
Kenyans make up the largest group of Africans named on a United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) list of 125 nationals facing deportation, with 49 people included. The list, which contains the names and photographs of nationals from five African countries, puts Kenya ahead of Ghana, which has 44 nationals listed. Mauritania follows with 12, while Morocco and South Africa have 11 and 9, respectively. The latest figures bring the number of Kenyans identified on the DHS deportation lists to 49, including 15 who were listed in December. The earlier group comprised 14 men and one woman. The offences…
Lecturers in public universities are set to begin a nationwide strike on October 2 after the Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) issued a seven-day notice over the stalled 2025-2029 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). UASU Secretary-General Dr Constantine Wasonga said the decision followed what the union described as the failure by university councils, the Ministry of Education and the National Treasury to honour the return-to-work formula signed on November 5, 2025. The union is also demanding a clear commitment that the CBA will be financed through the National Exchequer. “Universities are technically insolvent because the government has not been remitting money…
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has arrested Police Constable Julius Cheruiyot on suspicion of being the gunman who murdered prominent Nairobi lawyer Mathew Kyalo Mbobu, more than a year after the killing, with a second suspect, a boda boda rider who allegedly ferried the officer to and from the scene, arrested hours later. DCI Director Mohamed Amin announced the breakthrough in a statement on Thursday, September 24, 2026, saying detectives had identified and arrested Cheruiyot, of Nairobi Area, following what he described as an intensive and painstaking investigation stretching over the past year. “The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)…
The number of people facing charges over the murder of clinical psychiatrist Dr Victoria Nthunya Mutiso has risen to 10, after the Director of Public Prosecutions approved a fresh murder charge against a fifth suspect and detectives arrested a tenth person linked to the case this week. The DPP approved a murder charge against Kimutai Maritim on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, bringing to five the number of suspects set to face murder charges directly before the High Court. Maritim will be charged alongside Rose Mbithe Mulwa, her daughter Angela Mulwa, her son Chris Mulwa, and Police Constable Elijah Kibelion Kimoi,…
The Government has appealed against a High Court decision nullifying the sale of its 15 per cent stake in Safaricom PLC to Vodacom Group for Sh204.3 billion. Attorney General Dorcas Oduor and National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi have moved to the Court of Appeal, seeking to overturn the September 15 judgment and suspend its implementation pending the determination of the appeal. In separate affidavits sworn on September 17, Oduor and Mbadi argue that implementing the High Court orders could create complications because the shares have already been transferred and the transaction completed. The Government is also seeking an immediate…
The High Court has ordered the recovery of Sh708,664 in irregular payments made to a former Homa Bay County Government employee between February 2015 and May 2018. In a judgment delivered on September 18, 2026, Justice Benjamin Mwikya Musyoki found that Evelyne Adhiambo Ogweno received additional payments from the county government to which she was not entitled. The court ordered Ogweno and the fourth defendant in the case to jointly and severally refund the money to the Government, together with interest at court rates from the date the suit was filed until payment is made in full. The Ethics and…
Mobile loan lenders and non-deposit microfinance businesses face tougher operating conditions ahead, as MPs move to introduce at least four new conditions lenders must meet before advancing any loan, in a draft legislative proposal fronted by Kisumu West MP Rosa Buyu. The proposal obligates lenders to give full and material disclosure of the charges and terms attached to a loan, ensuring borrowers fully understand the consequences of the borrowing arrangement before they commit to it. “To protect the public from predatory behaviour of the non-deposit-taking microfinance businesses, the legislative proposal obligates lenders to give full and material disclosure of the…
The High Court has awarded tech entrepreneur Ndiang’ui Kinyagia Sh5 million in damages after ruling that a police raid on his home in June 2025 was unconstitutional, while also barring the Director of Public Prosecutions from pursuing any criminal case against him arising from the investigation that followed. Justice Patricia Mande Nyaundi delivered the judgment on Tuesday, September 22, finding that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Inspector-General of Police violated Kinyagia’s constitutional rights when officers entered his home in Kinoo, Kiambu County, on June 21, 2025, searched the premises and seized several of his belongings, including passports,…
