Author: Silas Apollo

At least 30,000 security guards are expected to gather at the Uhuru Park gardens on Saturday March 30, 2024 for the mass registration of private security officers. The event, organized by the Private Security Regulatory Authority is set to align the sector with the Private Security Regulation Act, which requires mandatory registration of all persons providing private security services. As such, the Authority said it had organized a mass registration forum for all private security officers, bouncers, stewards and close protection officers, across the country. The event, will be graced by the Principal Secretary for the Ministry of Interior and…

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Kisii deputy governor, Robert Monda, has been impeached by the Senate after a majority of senators on Thursday, March 14, voted to uphold all the four charges that had been brought against him by the Kisii county Assembly. Monda, a former MP for Nyaribari Chache, becomes the first deputy governor to be removed from office through an impeachment motion since the inception of devolution in 2013. The Senate, in a decisive move, voted to remove Monda from office over a series of grave misconduct allegations. The impeachment followed voting by Senators, who upheld all four charges of gross violation of…

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The move to restrict all government electronic and broadcast advertisements to Kenya Broadcasting Corporation is a threat to media freedom in the country Media practitioners have announced a plan to sue the government over its decision to restrict its television and radio advertisement to the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC). The Kenya Media Sector Working Group on Wednesday March 13, 2024, said that the decision by Broadcasting and Telecommunications Principal Secretary, Edward Kisangani, to reserve all government TV and radio adverts to the national broadcaster was discriminatory. The journalists said that the directive by the PS to ministries, state agencies, independent…

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