Businessman Tom Mboya has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for attempting to kill Ronalo Foods Restaurant owner Willam Osewe.
Milimani Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku also handed Mboya another three years for the offense of wounding a security guard Wilfred Ombunya Tembula
In 2016, the duo were in conflict over a woman where William Osewe accused Tom Mboya for cohabiting with his wife.
Tom Mboya shot Osewe four times after an argument ensued between them at Hagon Hotel, Thika Road.
Residents of Nakuru near Afraha Stadium are still in shock after a 40 year-old man stabbed his wife to death. According to Nation, Paul Ochieng stabbed his 20 year-old wife Njeri Kamande to death on Tuesday night after a dispute.
Neighbors said the accused committed the act while their twins watched. They said that the suspect was heard threatening to harm his wife before the 11 pm incident. “They have been quarreling since they moved in here three weeks ago. He has always threatened to killer whenever they have a dispute,” said a neighbor.
Another neighbor added that the suspect came home drunk at around 10:30 pm before picking a quarrel with his wife and stabbed her.
After committing the act, he tried committing suicide by jumping from the fourth floor of the building they live. But he was seized by the neighbors and handed to the police.
Nakuru Town East sub-county police commander Ellena Kabukuru who confirmed the incident and said the suspect is currently under treatment at Nakuru Level 5 Hospital and under police watch.
The incident is under investigation as a knife believed to be used in the crime was found. The victim was taken to Nakuru Level 5 Hospital mortuary for postmortem.
ODM Party leader Raila Odinga has opened up on the possibility of working with Deputy President William Ruto ahead of 2022 general elections.
Raila also added that Ruto has already declared his interest in the presidency but he seems not to support anyone.
While talking to Kalenjin radio stations on Wednesday October 6, 2021, Raila told the community that he is waiting for them to give him someone he can work with.
So far, it is only DP Ruto and KANU party leader Gideon Moi who have declared their 2022 presidential ambitions among the Kalenjin community.
“I am still the Arap Mibei you used to know,” he told them.
Raila, however, hit out at DP Ruto’s hustler narrative, arguing that the second in command was misadvised.
“Whoever advised William Ruto to use the word Hustler misadvised him. Hustler ni mtu mkorofi, mwizi na mtu mwenye anatumia njia za mikato,” Raila said.
He said he was yet to declare whether he will run for presidency next year or not.
“For now I want to unite the country through Azimio La Umoja,” he added.
Raila further noted that he will not look for any endorsement ahead of 2022.
ODM leader Raila Odinga has finally broken his silence on the Pandora papers expose that revealed the secret wealth that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s family has allegedly hidden in offshore accounts.
Speaking during an interview with Chamgei FM on Wednesday October 6, 2021, the former Prime Minister come defended President Kenyatta, noting that having an offshore account is not illegal so long as the owners explain how they opened it.
Raila said while he doesn’t have offshore accounts, it is acceptable for Kenyans who can explain the money in such accounts.
He added that the focus should not be on the account but how the money was obtained.
“Hii ni mambo ya Pandora box. Sioni kama kuna shida kuwa na account kule nje bora unaweza kusema jinsi ulifungua account vile Uhuru amesema atasema zaidi atakapo rudi (On pandora box issue, I do not see if there is a problem having an offshore account as long as you can explain how you opened it the same way President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that he will explain more once he returns to the country) ,” Raila said.
“Mimi sina chochote huko nje, yangu iko Kenya ( I don’t have any wealth outside the country, mine is okay),” declared the ODM leader.
Raila was commenting about the recently leaked International Consortium of Investigative Journalist’s (ICIJ) Pandora box expose which alleged that Uhuru and six members of his family have massive secret wealth stashed in foreign accounts.
The Teachers Service Commission has honored 31 teachers from across the country as it celebrated this years World Teachers’ Day.
While addressing a meeting in Nairobi, the commission’s Chief Executive Officer Dr. Nancy Macharia said that the 31 teachers consistently demonstrated exemplary performance in teaching, management and effective delivery of the curriculum for quality education.”
Some of the teachers were honored for going against all odds and shining in various areas of their careers. The CEO said that the process of identifying teachers to be rewarded were in strict conformity to the TSC Performance Recognition, Reward and Sanction Policy Framework.
“I wish to state that the 31 teachers are not the only remarkable teachers we have in the practice. In fact this number is just the tip of the ice berg. And we, at the TSC, will keep finding more ways to ensure all our teachers feel recognized and appreciated for their work,” said Dr. Nancy Macharia.
Among the 31 teachers is Mr. Peter Tabichi of Keriko Mixed Secondary School who won the Global Teacher of the Year Award in 2018. On the list also is Mr. Eric Ademba of Asumbi Girls’ Secondary School who won the African Union Continental Teacher of the Year Award in 2019 and Jane Kimithi of Othaya Girls’ Secondary School who also won the African Union Continental Teacher of the Year Award in 2020.
The list of the 31 teachers honored by TSC during 2021 World Teachers’ Day Include:
There was drama at the Nyandarua County Assembly on Tuesday morning after the police and staff fought goons allegedly hired to harm the embattled Speaker Ndegwa Wahome.
The goons engaged the police in running battles as the House was in session but they were over-powered and several of them arrested.
The Speaker declined to enter the assembly alleging that there are eight armed goons sneaked in to harm him. But MCAs present in the session claimed that the speaker was causing drama to gain public sympathy since he does not have followers in the assembly.
Mr. Wahome engaged the county police commanders for two hours urging them to enter the assembly building to flash out and arrest criminals allegedly hired to harm him.
When the Speaker was invited by the county police bosses to join them in search for the goons in the House, Mr.. Wahome and the staff allied to him said they feared the Speaker would not be safe in the hands of the police bosses. The staff demanded to be allowed to accompany the Speaker.
It was later revealed that it was a plot to smuggle the mace out of the House to paralyze the assembly’s operations. The Speaker blamed Governor Francis Kimemia for leadership wrangles which have rocked the assembly for almost a year now. He claimed that the county boss wants to destroy the assembly to avoid oversight.
He stated that the assembly staff have missed three months salary since he and the clerk, Gideon Mikiri are denied access to the offices.
Mr. Wahome claimed the governor was involved in confiscation of his car and had it detained by Toyota Kenya. However, the MCAs have declined the governor’s involvement in assembly wars. They claimed that the Speaker was rejected by the majority ward reps who are his employers.
Ms. Wanjiku Muhuhu who chaired the morning session as the Speaker addressed the media from outside. She said the House had been adjourned to Tuesday next week after tabling of the budget papers for the next financial year.
Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson Mandago has declared his interest to vie for senatorial seat when his second term ends.
While addressing residents at Kipkenyo Trading Center, He said; “I have been seeing many candidates traversing the county popularizing their candidature for different elective positions in the 2022 general election. Kindly preserve the Senate for me.
He said this while opening Chumz Ankara shop in the trading center and he criticized those who think the senatorial seat is preserved for those with a legal background.
“Our senator Prof. Margaret Kamar is not a lawyer, neither is Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka who was a District Commissioner.,” said Mandago adding that he will square it out with the other candidates running for the seat. However, Prof. Kamar has not declared whether she’ll defend her seat.
Mr. Mandago’s declaration could increase calls for democracy in the cosmopolitan county and jolt political prospects of other candidates, including Soy MP Caleb Kositany, and businessman Jonathan Bii who have declared their interest in the gubernatorial seat. They come form the larger Northern part of Uasin Gishu just like Mandago.
There have been suggestions from a section of leaders backed by elders that elective seats to be shared and rotated among the Northern (Soy and Turbo constituencies), Southern ( Kapseret and Kesses constituencies), and Eastern ( Moibei and Ainabkoi constituencies.
Residents in Makatari area of Dallas estate in Embu on Tuesday got into panic after a suspected gas explosion caused fire and left tenants trapped in their rooms. Embu County fire department responded to the scene to help in putting off the fire.
No casualties have so far been reported as investigation commence into the cause of the inferno. There have been a rise in fire cases in the said area as residents cry foul of faulty gas cylinders.
Kirimari Ward MCA Morris Nyaga who responded to the distress call of the residents termed the incident as unfortunate. The MCA said that property worth Ksh 2 million were lost as residents lost valuable household items.
He thanked the residents of Dallas estate for their combined efforts to put off the fire. A witness, Sarah Njeri who is a tenant in the state said the fire broke out as a result of gas explosion.
Investigations have revealed that Kenya received Ksh 16.2 billion from an Italian bank, Intensa San Paolo for the construction of Arror and Kimwarer dams when the investigations into misuse of funds were going on.
The Treasury Public debt registry reveals that the Italian bank transferred billions in the year starting July 2019, a few days after Treasury CS Henry Rotich was arrested over misuse of the funds meant for construction of the two dams.
This shows tha the arrest and the investigations of a suspected loan deal to finance the dams did not stop the bank from releasing additional debt for the project.
The register shows Kenya had received Ksh 3.4 billion before July 2019 when reports of an investigation into the alleged misuse of funds linked to the construction of the two dams were in the public domain.
In September 2019, President Uhuru Kenyatta cancelled the project after receiving reports from a task force that he formed to investigate the irregularities in the construction of the two dams.
Uasin Gishu Woman Representative Gladys Boss Shollei has hit out at President Uhuru Kenyatta over the Pandora Paper leaks. According to Boss, the president is blurring the link between morality and legality in connection to the wealth hidden abroad.
While speaking to Citizen TV, the woman representative slammed Uhuru Kenyatta saying that he disrespect his office by not leading in the front in the fight against corruption.
According to Boss, the leaks displayed by the Pandora Papers does not exactly reveal the illegality committed by the president but it shows his ‘immorality.’ She now says the president should declare what his he has abroad and in the country the same way DP Ruto’s property was made public by the CS for Interiror Fred Matiang’i.
“President Kenyatta has constantly been clear that we should declare our wealth. He has been leading in saying that he wants to fight corruption. We have the recent list of wealth owned by the deputy president revealed by the minister of interior in Parliament, they went into great details scrutinizing the DP’s wealth,” she said.
“And now the president has stated that it is a new era for transparency. Now that we know what they own out there, we can now also have a discussion on what they own in here. It may not be illegal, but it is immoral, because if you are leading country. Even if you have that money and it is legitimate, why not repatriate that money back into the country and therefore improve our economy?” she continued.
Boss Shollei added that it is not appropriate to lead a country that is suffering economically and you take your wealth out of the country. Especially if most of the wealth was created in the within. “So the immorality of it is important, and it is significant if the Parliament adjourn and discuss the matter,” said the woman rep.
The police in Samburu are currently detaining a secondary school girl after she was arrested while in possession of 26kg of bhang. According to the police, the girl was in company of a teenage friend on Tuesday 5, 2021 during the arrest but the accomplice managed to escape.
A manhunt has been launched for the the second suspect who is currently at large. This scenario comes amidst complains that institution of learning are permeated with drugs. In a different case over the weekend, residents of Kabarnet in Baringo decried sale of alcohol and bhang to secondary school students. This is after a student was spotted staggering before leaping into a motorbike.
Businesses are hopeful as they wait the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to refund money it collected as minimum tax. The tax body argued that the High Court ruling that Section 12D of the Income Tax unconstitutional means that the taxman has to start refunding the collected revenues.
KRA has however moved to the Court of Appeal to challenge the High Court’s judgement made on September 20, 2021; that stopped it from collecting the minimum tax at the rate of 1% of the gross turnover.
This minimum turnover is based on gross turnover and not gains or profits, and that all businesses even those making loses are required to pay.
High Court Judge Justice George Odunga ruled that the government’s plan to impose a minimum tax on businesses even when the business reports loss is illegal.
The minimum tax took effect in January 2021 after changes were made on the Income Tax Act in 2020. KRA’s move to the Court of Appeal shows its attempt to enforce the collection of Ksh 21 billion from businesses in the year to June, 2022 an effort to plug its revenue shortfalls.
Treasury CS Ukur Yatani told Parliament that the High Court’s judgement left KRA with sh 22 billion budget deficit.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has responded to the viral International Consortium of Investigative Journalism Pandora Papers leaks alleging that he has massive wealth hidden abroad together with his family.
Uhuru in his response noted that the reports will go a long way in enhancing the financial transparency and openness required in Kenya.
“My attention has been drawn to comments surrounding the Pandora Papers. Whilst I will respond comprehensively on my return from my State Visit to the Americas, let me say this.
“That these reports will go a long way in enhancing the financial transparency and openness that we require in Kenya and around the globe. The movement of illicit funds, proceeds of crime and corruption thrive in an environment of secrecy and darkness.”
He argued that the Pandora Papers and the consequent follow up audits will unearth secrecy and darkness for those who cannot come clear with their assets and wealth.
Police have launched manhunt for a man who allegedly threw his lover off a balcony killing her instantly.
According to a report by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the man believed to be a foreign national threw his lover from a balcony at Sunny Side apartments in Nyali.
DCI boss George Kinoti in a statement said that the suspect flew the scene after committing the act which shook residents at the hotel.
It is reported that while a guard in the apartment was making his usual rounds, he heard a scream of a woman then followed by a loud bang meters from where he stood.
Shocked, he went to confirm what the falling object was only to identify it was a body of a half dressed woman laying in a pool of blood.
“The guard identified as Parsaoti Ole Morinket, took a flight towards the janitor’s room, where he informed him of the incident,” said Kinoti.
After visiting the scene, the identified the body to belong to a 25 year-old lady earlier invited to one of the rooms in the apartments by one Muyanga Suleiman.
They went to the room and found the doors open, suspect flee. Nyali-based detectives immediately responded after being reported and have launched a man-haunt for the suspect.
“A manhunt for the suspect into this murder most foul has since been launched, with a specialized detachment being deployed for his neck. His minute of arrest is nigh,” said Kinoti.
Nyandarua County Assembly Deputy Speaker Zachary Njeru is among three county officials found guilty of contempt of court. The deputy speaker, Majority leader Edinald King’ori and the acting county assembly clerk Elizabeth Muthui were found to have gone against court orders directing that they allow the County Assembly Speaker Ndegwa Wahome access to his office, return his official car and the assembly mace.
Appearing before Justice Hillary Chemitei, he fined the three Ksh 400,000 each or serve two months in jail. Nyandarua County Commissioner Benson Lepamorijo and County Commander Zachary Kimani were also part of the case
Justice Chemitei gave the county commissioner and the commander two days to ensure that the assemble is open for Wahome, his official car is returned and his mace taken back.
Ndegwa Wahome had been impeached by a group of MCAs but was reinstated by the High Court.
Naivasha is being mentioned for the umpteenth time for both good and bad.
For the police, the area around Moi South Lake Road, the slams of Karagita in the outskirts of this town is a den of dangerous criminals.
According to them, it is the new pain for security personnel in the area.
The densely populated shanty town is prone to crime as it is a home of hundreds of low income families working in flower farms and job hunters.
The jobless youth spend their time chewing miraa and engage in idle gossip. Others spend most of their time in secluded joints taking illicit brews.
Its dark alleys are a no-go zone for the timid. Many have fell victims of mugging, while women attacked and raped by the intoxicated youths. This place is common with bhang peddling and smoking in the shabby settlements, a situation made worse COVID-19.
According to Nation Africa, four students in a local institution in the area are known for drug and alcohol addiction after being caught in possession of the hard drug. They were suspended and their situation is an evidence of the deep rooted problem that is rampant in most institutions of learning.
The Deputy County Commissioner Kisilu Mutua said that the area is chaotic and though it is hard, they are trying everything possible to bring stability. Three weeks ago, youths barricaded the road and blocked the Moi South Lake Road while protesting over the shooting of a fisherman.
The area remained a no-go zone for three days. Mr. Mutua said that the protests were permeated by goons who went on a looting spree in the vast area. They engaged the police in cat and mouse games for three days as the police lobbed teargas at them in an attempt to bring sanity.
Youths who depended on the natural resource for their daily living are now finding it hard since the government regulated fishing activities in a bid to curb illegal fishing. The Deputy County commissioner confirmed that crime has increased since they tightened the measures to control illegal fishing.
Chilling accounts of past cases indicate the area is inhabited by heartless group that killed, raped and committed other crimes. A recent one being the killing of a 30 year-old woman by her estranged lover. The man stabbed her in the stomach, and she died while undergoing treatment at the Naivasha Sub-county Hospital. The suspect was arrested while trying to flee from Naivasha.
A statement from a volunteer group known as Zion Singles said that at least six people, including five teenagers ailing from mental health related issues have been abused in the area. Mr. Mutua asked the area chiefs to be vigilant as social vices go up.