Police in Mombasa have arrested County Executive Committee Member (CECM) for Lands, Urban Planning and Housing in connection with an incident where a 25-year-old blogger was abducted, assaulted and sexually abused. The CECM Mohamed Hussein was arrested while taking lunch with a workmate at a restaurant in the central business district. He was expected to be arraigned at the Shanzu Law Court. Mombasa Chief of Staff Dr Noah Akala said Hussein was picked up by seven officers and after making calls to various authorities they established that he was being grilled at the Regional Police Headquarters. “This is another arrest…
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Iran’s supreme leader has said the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah “will not go unavenged”, a day after he was killed in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced five days of mourning in Iran in response to what he called the “martyrdom of the great Nasrallah”, describing him as “a path and a school of thought” that would continue. Iranian media reported that a Iranian Revolutionary Guards general was also killed in the Israeli strikes in Beirut on Friday. Israel’s military said Nasrallah had “the blood of thousands… on his hands”, and that it targeted…
Kiambu County has accumulated Sh6.5 billion in unpaid bills, making it one of the top Counties with debt, according to the Controller of Budget, Margaret Nyakang’o’s, report for the 2023/24 financial year. This places Kiambu second, behind Nairobi, which leads with Sh118 billion in pending bills, while counties across the country face a collective total of over Sh181 billion. In the report, Nyakang’o stated that Kiambu reported pending bills amounting to sh5.94 billion at the beginning of the financial year, of which Sh3.57 billion was for recurrent expenditure and Sh2.36 billion for development activities. Despite settling Sh387 million in bills…
Kakamega Governor Fernandes Barasa has dismissed reports of misuse of funds in the county as misleading. Barasa said that the reported use of Sh521 million in hospitality is not a reflection of what the county government has spent according to the county records. He said the figure is the total amount of various costs including what the county assembly spent and the amounts spent in other utilities like water, electricity and other costs like transportation and fuel. The governor noted that the county executive spent Sh290million with the county assembly spending Sh46.7million in hospitality totaling to Sh336.7million all costs included…
Nearly two weeks after Wajir MCA Yusuf Hussein Abdi was abducted in Nairobi, his family is urging new Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja to take urgent action to resolve the case. The Della Ward MCA and Wajir County Assembly Minority Leader was reportedly abducted by armed people in Nairobi on September 13 at night on Enterprise Road while heading to his home in Pangani from South C. “Up to now there is no clue of his whereabouts,” said Adan Issack, Wajir nominated MCA in Majengo, Mombasa, adding that they want justice for the abducted MCA. The Head of State…
A crisis is unfolding in Kenya’s public universities as the Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) and the Kenya Universities Staff Union (KUSU) begin a nationwide strike in an ongoing dispute with the government over unfulfilled agreements. The strike, which kicked off on Wednesday, follows the expiration of a seven-day notice issued by UASU on September 11, outlining several unresolved issues with the government. University lecturers have been awaiting negotiations for three years, with no progress made since they submitted their proposal on September 4, 2020. In that proposal, UASU called for an increase in the monthly basic salary to Sh99,650…
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) arrested Peter Odhiambo Agoro, Chairperson of the Consortium of Civil Societies in Kenya on Tuesday, for extorting Sh3 million from a state corporation’s Chief Executive Officer. The suspect was escorted to the EACC Integrity Centre Police Station for processing. The civil society leader demanded the Sh3 million bribe as an inducement and facilitation fee to refrain from pursuing and publicising accusations of procurement malpractices he claimed to have against the Parastatal CEO. The suspect accepted the complainant’s plea to reduce the demanded amount to Sh2 million, which was to be paid in two instalments…
Machakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti has dismissed the ongoing rumours that she has been arrested in the United Kingdom (UK). The governor claims that the online smear campaign has been orchestrated and funded by her political adversaries, who seek to undermine the transformative work she has been doing in Machakos by suggesting that she and her son have smuggled millions to the UK. In a press release, Wavinya warned her political enemies that they may face legal action for spreading false news online and tarnishing her and her family’s reputations, which could create a negative perception and endanger their lives. “We…
At least 50 people have been killed in central Nigeria’s Niger state, after a fuel tanker collided with a lorry carrying passengers and cattle, the country’s disaster agency said. The Niger State Emergency Management Agency said the collision happened at about 00:30 local time on Sunday (23:30 GMT Saturday), and caused an explosion which engulfed both vehicles. Director-general of the agency, Abdullahi Baba-arah, said response teams were dispatched to the scene to manage the situation. A number of other vehicles were also caught up in the explosion. Footage taken from the scene shortly after the incident shows the two vehicles,…
Jomvu MP Badi Twalib has vowed to stand with his constituents amid a surge in land disputes. The constituency has recently witnessed a wave of evictions, the latest being the Mwaeba village in the Miritini location, where residents were evicted in the wee hours. Speaking during a meeting with Village Elders, the legislator condemned the eviction of more than 30 families of Mwaeba in an inhumane way by a tycoon. During his second term as MP, he revealed that the parcel of land was earmarked by the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) to expand the Moi International Airport. The residents were…