Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Members of Parliament have rejected President William Ruto’s nominee for the Consul General to Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On Wednesday, legislators affirmed the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations’ decision rejecting the nomination of Charles Githinji Kiiru. The House concluded that the committee decision rejecting Githinji’s nomination was well informed. They said that the nominee lacked the technical knowhow to represent Kenya in the DR Congo. In its report tabled in the House, the committee said Githinji’s performance during the interview was below expectation. “The nominee for Consul-General to Goma, DRC, Charles Githinji Keiru, demonstrated a…

National carrier Kenya Airways (KQ) has canceled two flights in and out of Dubai following severe weather and ongoing flooding in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). One flight was canceled on Tuesday and another on Wednesday. “Due to severe weather and ongoing flooding in the United Arab Emirates, which has led to operational challenges, Kenya Airways canceled one flight into and out of Dubai yesterday, Tuesday, April 16th, 2024, and one today, Wednesday, April 17th, 2024,” said KQ in a statement. The airline apologized to affected customers and noted that it was keenly monitoring the situation. Read: Dubai submerged in floods…

The spouse of former Murang’a Governor Mwangi Wa Iria, Jane Waigwe Kimani, has been arrested. She was arrested alongside her brother Solomon Mutura Kimani over the Sh140 million graft case. Confirming the arrest was EACC Spokesperson Eric Ngumbi who noted that the suspects are set to be arraigned at the Milimani Anti-Corruption Court. The two are Directors of Value View Ltd, one of the companies used as a conduit for the fraudulent scheme. EACC is pursuing the other 6 suspects, including the former Governor, who failed to honour summons to appear before the EACC on Wednesday. On Tuesday, a High…

Adidas has emerged from its bruising tie-in with rapper Kanye West and says it expects to make profits of €700m (£598m) in 2024. In February the German sportswear giant said it planned to sell its remaining Yeezy trainers from its partnership with West for at least cost price. Tuesday’s upbeat comments from Adidas come a month after the company posted its first losses in 30 years. It makes Samba, Gazelle and Campus shoes. The company said the revised figures were €200m more than initially predicted and down to a better than expected first quarter of the year. The company said…

Tension is growing at the Kitale Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) Farm in Kwanza after one person was shot and killed and another injured in a clash with police. The deceased was in a group of about 200 people who tried to raid the farm and attacked workers there, police said. The incident happened on April 15 in the evening, police said. A group of General Service Unit officers manning the farm was overpowered and left three of them with injuries. This forced them to seek help from Chepchoina where police were dispatched to help quelling the chaos at Japata ADC…

Police are investigating the murder of two women whose bodies were found on the roadside in Nkubu, Meru County. The deceased were identified as Diana Gakli Mutegi and Lucy Makena Ndujo and are from the area. The bodies were discovered on Tuesday evening long after the two had died, police said. The women seemed to have been strangled and had deep cuts in their heads, police who visited the scene said. The motive of the murder is yet to be known. The bodies were lying three meters apart with their faces upwards. Police said they moved the bodies to the…

Police are holding a man who hit and killed a two-year-old boy in an unprovoked incident in Kayole area, Nairobi. The parents of the boy said the deceased boy was among those playing outside their house when a pedestrian who police have said is mentally challenged hit him in the head using a wooden object. The boy fell on the ground while screaming for help as the assailant looked at him. The parents rushed him to a nearby clinic before they were referred to Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital where he succumbed while being attended to. Police said the boy had…

Police are investigating an incident in which a 28-year-old crane operator died after falling from a high-rise building under construction in Nairobi’s Muthaiga area. Fredrick Matei Tumbo was moving the crane from the twelfth floor to the tenth one when he slid and fell off. He landed on the ground floor and died instantly, police and witnesses said. The deceased was among workers at the construction site when the incident happened on Tuesday April 16 evening. The construction works stopped as police and an ambulance attended the scene. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy. This is the…

Two men drowned in the Kamsogon River Amakura, Teso, Busia County. Search and rescue was mounted along the river and the two bodies were retrieved following the April 15 evening incident. They were positively identified as Brian Oyolo aged 23 and Aaron Mande aged 16. Police said the two were trying to swim across the flooded river when raging waters swept them away. The bodies were moved to Kocholia Mortuary awaiting postmortem. Officials have urged the public to be cautious because most rivers are flooded. Elsewhere, a fisherman drowned after a boat he was using capsized in Lamu in the…

Haiti’s government on Tuesday named the members of a transitional council set to take power when Prime Minister Ariel Henry steps down – inching closer to putting in place measures that could restore security in the violence-wracked country. The council is expected to choose a leader and a prime minister and wield certain presidential powers by majority vote. Its mandate runs to February 2026. The government, however, did not give a date for the council’s installment and local lawyers have warned that the process of confirming the members could be long and several nominees could be rejected. Henry left Haiti…

Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome has been blocked from stopping the ongoing doctors’ strike. In a ruling by Justice Jairus Ngaah, the court has barred the IG or his subordinates from enforcing the former’s decision to suspend Articles 36, 37, and 41 of the Constitution. On Sunday, the police boss termed demonstrations by doctors and clinical officers an inconvenience to the public. Koome said medics have engaged in the demonstrations without notifying police officers, contrary to the law. He urged the medics to conduct their  demonstrations with caution, as any act of infringing the rights of the general public…

Former Murang’a Governor Mwangi wa Iria can breathe easy after a High Court issued conservatory orders restraining the EACC and the ODPP from charging him. The former county boss who is currently a member of the Azimio la Umoja coalition party, is among eight accused of defrauding the devolved unit of Sh140 million. On Monday, the anti-graft commission summoned Wa Iria, his wife Jane Waigwe and six others for processing at the Integrity Centre at 8:00 am on Tuesday. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mulele Ingonga on Saturday had said the eight were accused of irregularly awarding tenders and other…

The National Assembly Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations rejected the nomination of Charles Githinji Kiiru as the Consular General for Goma, DRC. The move by the committee led by Belgut Member of Parliament Nelson Koech came as no surprise as some of the MPs had expressed disappointment with the nominee’s unpreparedness and lack of knowledge on his duty station. “That the House rejects the appointment of Charles Githinji Kiiru as the Consular General for Goma,” Koech told the House while tabling the vetting report. Githinji shocked Kenyans after telling the committee that DRC’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) equated to…

Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary General Francis Atwoli wants Private Security Regulatory Authority (PSRA) Director General Fazul Mahamed to resign over alleged forgery of academic credentials. This comes a day after Mahamed instructed private security companies to stop deducting and remitting security officers’ fees to COTU. Mahamed cited the union’s failure to fight for private security officers despite the monthly deductions. Mahamed also threatened to revoke licences for security firms that failed to comply with the directive. On his part, Atwoli cited 2016 reports from the EACC and the Office of the Ombudsman which declared him unqualified to…

The government has declared a nationwide enforcement of rules and regulations in the livestock sector. The exercise, which is being coordinated by the Ministry of Interior and National Administration, will involve the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Ministry of Health and County Governments. Speaking at the Kenya School of Government during a high-level multi-agency security workshop ahead of the exercise that begins immediately, Internal Security Principal Secretary Dr Raymond Omollo said there has been an increase in livestock theft, unregulated trade in animal products, and contamination of food products that have affected eateries and resulted in fatalities in the…

Nairobi Governor, Sakaja Johnson has spearheaded the formation of Revenue and Compliance teams to enhance collection. The county government restrained its compliance officers from verifying payments, to give customers time to adopt the Unified Business Permit (UBP) and take advantage of the Land Rates penalty and interest waivers issued in January. “In January 2024 I launched the Unified Business Permit (UBP) and directed that enforcement would not be done for a period of three months to allow Nairobians to acclimatize with the new license regime,” said Governor Sakaja. “In those three months, we have streamlined our identification process which will…