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Police Officer Who Shot Girlfriend Six Times in 2020 Found Dead

17Jan

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Police Officer Who Shot Girlfriend Six Times in 2020 Found Dead

Police Constable David Nyamweya made headlines after shooting his lover Everlyn Njoki six times after a brawl; luckily, she survived the ordeal. A report by Daily Nation indicated the police officer's body had been found floating on River Kathita in Meru and investigations to determine whether it was suicide or murder had already started. An interdiction letter dated January 2, 2022, was also found inside his pocket and he was also set to attend a disciplinary hearing over the shooting incident which left now 24-year-old Njoki with grave injuries. “He called me on Thursday asking for KSh 200 but I told him I did not have it. He told me he had not been working. When he called Saturday morning, I thought it was about the money and that is why I didn’t pick his call," she said. The w...

Five arrested over defrauding Korean of Sh2.9m in fake gold scam.

8Dec

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Five arrested over defrauding Korean of Sh2.9m in fake gold scam.

Five suspects were Tuesday arrested in a police operation after defrauding a Korean national Sh2.9 million, on the pretext that they would sell him gold. The five were arrested following a complaint by one Song Sung, who had initially been shown some well parked bars that he was made to believe were made of gold. The victim had earlier been directed to a company known as Ekweme enterprises in Karen suburbs, where he was shown the supposed gold. He told police he was led to the establishment by proxies believed to have been working in cahoots with the fraudsters, who immediately went into hiding after receiving the money. Robinson Gitau, 35, Livai Kombo, 39, Fatuma Mohammed, 28, Eva Kimotho, 36 and a Cameroonian national Utia Kugi, 36, were arrested in a police operation. ...

Man kills wife, 4 children in Horrific Scene in Kirinyaga

30Nov

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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...

Man linked to killing of BBC journalist in Nairobi was her fixer, helping her move around.

23Nov

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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...

Father and son among three killed in gruesome Motorbike Accident in Kombani

7Oct

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Father and son among three killed in gruesome Motorbike Accident in Kombani

A father and son duo were among three killed in a road crash involving two motorbikes that collided head on in the Kombani area on the Mombasa-Lunga Lunga road. According to reports, the two bikes collided and burst into flames with the father and son duo sustaining serious burns in the wee hours of Thursday. Reports say the man was on the motorbike with his son and his wife during the accident that also killed a businessman who was on the second bike. According to police officers, the woman who lost her husband and her son in the accident and the rider of the second bike are receiving medical care at the Mswambweni County Referral Hospital. The bodies of the deceased were removed to the Mswambweni County Referral Hospital mortuary.

Primary school teacher who defiled class six pupil sentenced to serve 20 years in jail

7Oct

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Primary school teacher who defiled class six pupil sentenced to serve 20 years in jail

A 45-year-old primary school teacher who defiled a 13-year-old pupil in 2016 was on Wednesday sentenced to serve 20 years in jail. Fredrick Mwangi was sentenced by Milimani senior principal magistrate David Ndungi after the court found him guilty of the offence. The magistrate said the prosecution had proved its case against him. While passing the sentencing, the magistrate jailed the teacher with the sentence saying it is the minimum sentence for such an offence as provided by the law. "The accused who is a teacher defiled a child. The rights of his children are not superior to that of the child he defiled, I hereby sentence him to 20 years in prison as provided by law," ruled the magistrate. Mwangi was accused of defiling the minor who was a class six student wh...

How Sh180m looted Youth Fund cash was shared

1Oct

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How Sh180m looted Youth Fund cash was shared

Details have emerged showing how the Sh180 million stolen from the Youth Enterprise Development Fund was shared out. An anti-corruption court on Thursday fined businessman Mukuria Ngamau Sh700 million for defrauding the Fund of the money. Chief magistrate Douglas Ogoti held that the director of Quorandum Limited irregularly acquired the money. Ngamau will spend 27 years in jail if he defaults in paying the fine, having been found guilty of five counts of looting seven years ago. The magistrate further ordered the businessman, and by extension his company, to compensate the fund Sh180 million, being the amount that was lost. The money trail by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission revealed that the cash was moved from the YEDF account at Chase Bank to Quorandum Ltd a...

Upkeep for children born out of wedlock to be mandatory

7Sep

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Upkeep for children born out of wedlock to be mandatory

The government has drawn a new set of laws spelling out a raft of hefty fines for child neglect and abuse, especially in social and electronic media spaces. The Children Bill, 2021, seeks to repeal the Children Act, 2001, to provide for penalties for denying a child the right to life, survival, wellbeing and development. The bill sponsored by Majority Leader Amos Kimunya gives the state powers to take measures against any abuses of child rights and neglect of parental responsibility. On parental responsibility, the bill provides that where a child is born in wedlock, the parents of the child shall have parental responsibility for the child on an equal basis. “Neither the father nor the mother of the child shall have a superior right or claim against the other in the exerci...

At least 30 dead in weekend DR Congo attack

6Sep

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At least 30 dead in weekend DR Congo attack

At least 30 people were killed in a weekend attack in the restive northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, local and UN sources said on Monday. The jihadists of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) are suspected to have carried out the attack in the Ituri area on Saturday, they said. Dieudonne Malangayi, acting chairman of the chiefdom of Walese Vonkutu, initially said 14 people died in the attack but told AFP on Monday that more bodies had since been discovered. "The civilians who went to look for the bodies of the victims found 16 others in the bush, which makes 30 civilians massacred," said Malangayi. A UN source confirmed that at least 30 people had died in the attack. One civilian who helped look for bodies said the victims had mostly been attacked with machete...

Alarm as 7,000 snub university places despite qualifying

17Aug

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Alarm as 7,000 snub university places despite qualifying

Over seven thousand 2020 KCSE students who qualified for the university under government sponsorship failed to take part in the revision exercise subsequently missing out on enrollment. In the 2020 KCSE examination, some 142,540 candidates obtained the minimum university entry mean grade of C+ plus and above. The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service data indicates that 128,073 students were placed to degree courses while 6,617 opted for diploma courses in technical colleges. “7850 with C+ (Plus) and above failed to apply,” Education CS George Magoha said. Magoha spoke during the release of the university placement at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development on Tuesday. https://cdn.iframe.ly/api/iframe?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.the-star.co.ke%2Fnews...