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Lamu night travel ban on cargo vehicles lifted eight years on
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Lamu night travel ban on cargo vehicles lifted eight years on

The government has lifted an eight-year-old ban on night travel for cargo transporters plying the Lamu-Witu-Garsen road in Lamu County. Since 2014, following terrorist attacks, public service vehicles (PSV) had been operating only during day and in one convoy escorted by armed police. Private vehicles, including those ferrying cargo, were also banned from travelling at night. Speaking in Witu over the weekend, Coast Regional Commissioner John Elungata announced that the ban on night travel for vehicles transporting food, building materials, farm produce and other goods had been lifted. But Mr Elungata said the night travel ban remains for PSVs. The administrator called on drivers to obey security directives, including stopping for checks. “The ban on night travel for ca...
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Man kills wife, 4 children in Horrific Scene in Kirinyaga
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Man kills wife, 4 children in Horrific Scene in Kirinyaga

A man was Monday arrested after he allegedly killed his wife and four children in a village in Kirinyaga County in a bizarre incident. The man identified as Paul Murage Njuki, 35, is said to have also defiled one of his deceased daughters before killing her. He surrendered to the local police Monday before he led detectives to the location he had dumped a killer weapon and his house where the bodies were. The children are aged between 13 and one. Police say the assailant used a blunt object and a panga to commit the offence. Police say the man killed his two sons and two daughters before dumping the killer weapon in a thicket near a river in Kathata village. The bodies were found on the victims' beds. The bodies were retrieved from the scene and police s...
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Woman lost husband, daughter and now has Sh5.5m hospital bill
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Woman lost husband, daughter and now has Sh5.5m hospital bill

When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions, a Shakespeare saying goes. Day after another, Christine Gitaka has been facing one of the battalions. Eight months after Christine married the love of her life Erick Wandugo in a colourful wedding, they were involved in an accident. Erick died in the accident. Christine was four months pregnant.  Her unborn child miraculously survived with a normal heart rate. But Christine was left with multiple fractures. She was in a coma for three days and when she woke up, she had lost her memory. Christine met Erick at Makerere University in Uganda where they were both studying.  After dating for almost two years, they tied the knot on May 2, 2009, at St Mark's Anglican Church in Westlands, Nairobi. ...
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Passaris now wants DCI, DPP to ban Sonko from social media
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Passaris now wants DCI, DPP to ban Sonko from social media

Nairobi Woman Representative Esther Passaris has asked the Director of Criminal Investigations to block all the social media platforms of former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko. She spoke Tuesday during the illumination of the Kenyatta International Conference Center to mark the beginning of the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence on Tuesday night. Passaris said that Sonko’s recent actions warranted the country to ban him from using any social media platforms. Sonko recently leaked videos implicating various individuals including Justice Said Chitembwe in alleged corrupt dealings, with one woman being exposed in a compromising situation. Passaris said that Sonko infringed on the rights of the woman and his expose of her constitutes online violence against her. ...
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Police marksman on the run after killing his colleague at camp in troubled Laikipia
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Police marksman on the run after killing his colleague at camp in troubled Laikipia

A police marksman is on the run after he shot and killed his colleague at a camp in the troubled Laikipia County. Constable Robert Longare is missing with his G3 rifle that was loaded with 20 bullets after he allegedly shot and killed his colleague John Siro in an argument Tuesday. Siro was shot in the chest from the back in their sentry and the motive is yet to be known. He fled the scene while shooting at his colleagues who tried to pursue him after the incident. Police authorities fear Longare who is a marksman may try to revenge on their colleagues who are pursuing him and an alert has been issued in Miteta area for caution. The officers are from the Anti-Stock Theft Unit (ASTU) team that is based at Miteta camp under the newly created Kirima Sub County. They are...
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Man linked to killing of BBC journalist in Nairobi was her fixer, helping her move around.
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Man linked to killing of BBC journalist in Nairobi was her fixer, helping her move around.

The man who is believed to have murdered the BBC journalist in a hotel room in Nairobi before dying in a fall was her fixer. Officials aware of the probe say Henry Timati Mauti, the Kenyan man who is suspected to be the killer of Kate Mitchell, was known to her and was helping her move around. The man, a graduate of USIU, had studied radiography. The motive of the incident is yet to be established. Mitchell, a British national who worked for BBC Media Action in a number of African countries, died on Friday, November 19. Preliminary findings show the woman was stabbed before being strangled to death. Police Monday said preliminary investigations pointed to a murder-suicide case, adding that the man whose body was found in the same Ibis Styles Hotel died from a fall. N...
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Police gain clues on terrorists’ escape plan through recovered mobile phones
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Police gain clues on terrorists’ escape plan through recovered mobile phones

Two damaged mobile phones recovered from near the scene where three escaped terrorists were arrested hold the key to how they planned Kamiti jailbreak. This includes information on how the terrorists got money to enable their movements from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison to Kamuluyuni village in Kitui county. The mobile phones data will also tell how Musharraf Abdalla, Joseph Juma Odhiambo and Mohammed Ali Abikar moved from the city. Reports suggest they had “a lot” money before they were captured on Thursday as they sought direction to Boni Forest, Lamu county. And police believe the three were in communication with unknown men who were waiting to pick them up in Masalani, a few kilometers away from where they were caught. The identities of the people who were to pick ...
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Ethiopian businessman missing after abduction in Nairobi
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Ethiopian businessman missing after abduction in Nairobi

An Ethiopian businessman based in Nairobi is missing after he was abducted by unknown people on Friday, November 19. Samson Teklemichael was driving his Bentley car when he was stopped in broad daylight by a man wearing traffic police uniforms and later removed by other men in civilian clothes. He was later dragged into a Subaru car as other road users recorded the drama. He has not been seen or heard of since then. His wife Milen Mezgebo said she cannot locate him since then. She said he called her as he was being taken away and later switched off. “He called and told me he had been abducted by people he didn’t know. After that, he disconnected. We have reported the matter to the police and embassy but no help so far,” she said. Teklemichael is a businessman in the ...
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Puzzle As Sh102 million found in student’s bank account
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Puzzle As Sh102 million found in student’s bank account

The Assets Recovery Agency is going after a college student with over Sh100 million in her bank account that is suspected to be proceeds of crime and money laundering. The agency has moved to court seeking orders to freeze the account of Felesta Nyamathira Njoroge that has Sh102,654,024 at the Co-operative Bank of Kenya. Felesta, 21,  and a Kenyan citizen, is a student at Nairobi Technical Training Institute. Detectives established she is the sole signatory and beneficial owner of the bank account under investigation. The funds were deposited to her account in four split transactions in a span of three days from August 4 to August 6, 2021. Felesta says the cash was deposited to her account by her boyfriend De Mesel Marc, a Belgian, as gift. On August 4, he depos...
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Recruitment for phase three of Kazi mtaani to start Friday 19th Nov.
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Recruitment for phase three of Kazi mtaani to start Friday 19th Nov.

The recruitment process for the third phase of the Kazi mtaani programme is set to begin on Friday, November 19. Principal Secretary for State Department of Housing and Urban Development, Charles Hinga in a statement announced that interested persons will be required to register through the Kazi Mtaani Management System portal.  "The online portal will ensure those interested be registered in a timely, transparent and efficient manner that will be equitable across the board," he said on Tuesday. KMS is a mobile and web-based system developed by the government of Kenya to register and manage Kazi mtaani beneficiaries across the country. Hinga said the web application will be used to register, process the data received from the mobile application, payments and reports.&...
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