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DPP Haji Orders Immediate Arrest, Prosecution of Governor Mike Sonko

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Noordin Haji has ordered the arrest of Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko over graft.

The DPP claim that he has sufficient evidence in charging the Governor with corruption crime , money laundering among other offences.

Sonko will be prosecuted alongside several county employees over alleged graft.

In October, EACC launched investigations into suspected procurement illegalities and irregular payment of Sh 196 million in the ongoing construction of Dandora stadium.

Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission detectives are probing top City Hall officers over allegations of violation of the laws in procuring a contractor for the Sh350 million project.   

The probe follows recommendations by the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority that reviewed the tendering process

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Activist Links Rashid Echesa to Sex Trafficking, Calls For His Arrest

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Activist Boniface Mwangi has called for the arrest of former Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa after linking him to sex trafficking business.

This follows an exclusive article by The Standard Newspaper that exposed a sex den in Ruaka which was using underage girls.

The Standard linked the sex den to an unnamed ex-minister, whom Boniface Mwangi believes is Rashid Echesa.

According to the local daily, Police rescued the underage girls and arrested three suspects including a 44-year-old man believed to be the brothel manager.

Skimpily dressed girls, most of them underage were led to the elevator, down the seven floors and into police vehicles. For close to a year, the house was being used as a brothel by the proprietors.

The daily further reports that the former Cabinet minister has been operating the brothel since the beginning of the year.

But activist Mwangi while referring to a previous incident where Echesa was linked to another trafficking case involving Pakistan Bale Bale dancers says Echesa conducted all these illegal activities while having police bodyguards.

The activist has accused the police authorities for protecting a sex trafficker and called for immediate action.

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Postmortem report reveals how ‘Star’ journalist Eric Oloo was killed

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

A postmortem report released on Saturday, November 23, has revealed how The Star correspondent in Siaya County Eric Oloo was killed.

According to the report, Oloo was hit by a blunt object in the head and abdomen, resulting in excess internal bleeding that led to his death.

Pathologist Gabriel Juma shared the report details with the media.

Oloo’s body was on Thursday morning (November 21) found dead in the house of his alleged lover, Sabina Kerubo, 36, a deputy OCS at Ugunja Police Station.

It is alleged that Oloo, 41, found other men in Sabina’s house on Wednesday night, resulting in the fatal confrontation.

Ugunja Sub-County Police Commander, Ibrahim Muchuma, on Thursday told journalists that Kerubo was arrested alongside her daughter, house-help, and a middle-aged man identified only as Victor, who is said to be a chef in Ugunja Town.

Muchuma revealed that Kerubo’s landlord, Moses Ochieng, reported at Ugunja Police Station that Kerubo had — on Wednesday night — gone to his house to request for his vehicle so that she could take her “ailing” husband to hospital.

The landlord said that upon reaching Kerubo’s house, he saw Oloo lying lifeless on the floor, with cut injuries in his head.

Ochieng, thereafter, alerted police, who arrived at the scene of crime and arrested Kerubo, her daughter, house-help and the said-Ugunja Town chief, Victor.

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VIDEO: Slain ‘Star’ Journalist’s estranged wife narrates their last phone chat

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Estranged wife to The Star Newspaper reporter Eric Oloo who was found murdered in a police woman’s house on Thursday, November 21 in a case of a love triangle gone wrong has narrated her last phone chat with the slain journalist.

Oloo, was said to be married to Ugunja Police Station Deputy OCS Sabina Kerubo with reports that the two were living together as husband and wife for a period of time.

New details have emerged however, indicating that the slain journalist had a wife and children, with their last conversation hinting that they were to get back together.

Lucy Atieno, aged 23 years narrated that the two had gone their separate ways in 2017, after meeting in 2016 and living together for one year.

Currently, she has been left with an 11 day old baby after having delivered just a week ago, and a daughter aged two years.

According to Ms Otieno, she had moved to her parent’s home after separating from estranged husband but later reunited earlier in the year where she got pregnant with their second daughter.

Apparently, Oloo went mute after the news of the second pregnancy and only decided to call her last month, wanting to speak to their daughter and hinting on getting back together as a family, next year.

“He inquired what we had fed on and told me that he had shopped for our daughter’s Christmas, promising to have a boda boda operator drop the gifts the next morning,” said Ms Otieno.

She added that when she heard of Oloo’s death, she was shocked, dropped her child and rushed outside wailing as she could not believe the news.

Watch the video below courtesy of daily nation.

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Two suspects including a police officer shot dead in a botched robbery in Ruaka

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Two suspects including a police officer have been shot dead in a botched robbery in Ruaka, Kiambu County.

During the incident, a pistol was recovered.

More details to follow…..

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Woman slaughters, cooks and eats her own child in Tanzania

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

A woman is reported to have slaughtered, cooked and eaten her child in Southern Tanzania.

Reports by BBC Swahili indicate that the suspect and her husband have been arrested for interrogation.

Ludewa area councilor Emmanuel Ngalalikwa told BBC Swahili that the woman has admitted committing the cannibalistic act.

Roncliffe Odit, a BBC Swahili reporter confirmed the news on the incident via his twitter account on Thursday evening.

“A woman is reported to have slaughtered, cooked and eaten her child in southern #Tanzania. The suspect & her husband have been arrested for interrogation. Emmanuel Ngalalikwa, #Ludewa area Councillor told the @bbcswahili the woman has admitted committing the cannibalistic act,” he tweeted.

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What next for Jowie as DNA links him to Monica’s blood?

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Blood samples from khaki shorts said to belong to Joseph Irungu alias Jowie matched that of slain Monica Kimani’s blood.

Government analyst Joseph Kagunda Kimani on Tuesday told the court there was a small blood stain on Jowie’s brown shorts taken from his house by the police to the Government Chemist for analysis.

Kagunda was testifying in the case where Jowie has been charged alongside his ex-fiancée Jacque Maribe with the murder of Monica.

The report lists 73 items that were tested during the investigations in to the murder of Monica, which happened on September 19, 2018 in her apartment at Lamuria Gardens in Kilimani.

The Government Chemist was tasked to analyse items derived from Monica’s apartment, Maribe’s residence where Jowie was living, and her car for criminal investigations.

The items were received from the Government Chemist from September 25 and October 5, 9 and 24 last year.

They include a black leather belt, black hair band, maroon pillow, pair of navy blue sandals, a pair of black sports shoes, Heineken green empty beer bottle, swabs on sterile swab stick from rear left seat of car KCA 031E among other items.

In the report, the DNA generated from the swab from the rim of the empty Tusker can was of an unknown male origin.

“The DNA generated from the swab from the rim of the empty Tusker can was of an unknown male origin,” reads the report.

The DNA generated from the swab from gear lever was from an unknown female origin.

The swab from the glass and empty beer bottle  generated a partial  mixed profile.

The DNA generated from a swab of the pillow,walking closet and rear seat matched with the DNA profile generated from a buccal swab  labelled Joseph Irungu.

The late Monica Kimani introduced Joseph Irungu, alias Jowie, to her friend as a security expert working for Interpol and the Office of the President.

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Autopsy Reveals How Major Peter Mugure’s Wife, Children Were killed

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

The 31-year-old woman who was allegedly killed by her estranged Kenya Air Force husband was hit with a blunt object while her two children were strangled using a rope, Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor has revealed.

Addressing the media at Nanyuki Teaching and Referral hospital mortuary after conducting a postmortem on their bodies, Oduor said Joyce Syombua was bleeding from the brain.

He, however, said since the bodies of Syombua, Shanice Maua, 10, and Prince Michael, 5, had decomposed, it was difficult to tell when they were exactly killed.

The pathologist said DNA samples have been taken from the bodies for further tests, an exercise that would take one week.

He also indicated that other samples would be taken from the bodies for toxicological tests to identify whether the bodies had been poisoned before they were killed, something that could not be established during Wednesday’s exercise.

That exercise, he said, will take about three months and will inform the identification of the bodies.

Family members of the deceased family, who included Syombua’s mother, Elizabeth Maua, were at the morgue to identify the bodies, with the pathologist saying they presumptively positively identified them.  

The family members did not , however, speak to the media after the exercise.

The pathologist indicated that the bodies would be released to the family for burial once the DNA tests are done and results released.

It took over 10 pathologists over five hours to do the postmortem.

The three bodies were exhumed from a shallow grave at Makaburini area in Nanyuki town on Saturday and taken to Nanyuki Teaching and Referral Hospital mortuary.

Syombua’s estranged husband, Major Peter Mugure Mwaura and another suspect, Collins Pamba, are in police custody and they will know whether they will be charged with murder on December 9.

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Witness in Ruto Assassination Letter Case Spills The Beans, Sets up Itumbi in Court

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

State House digital strategist Dennis Itumbi forwarded fabricated letter alleging there was a plot to kill DP William Ruto to a WhatsApp group called Tangatanga, a witness has told the Court.

Noah Keino, a clerk at the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI), told the Milimani Court on Wednesday that Itumbi posted the said-letter in late May 2019, but he [Keino] is not sure whether it was Itumbi who authored the letter.

Keino said he had seen the letter posted in three other WhatsApp groups, and, therefore, he couldn’t say with certainty that Itumbi was the source of the alarming message.

Keino, who is an administrator of the Tangatanga WhatsApp group, said the network was created for Ruto supporters to exchange ideas on how they can boost his 2022 presidential bid.

Itumbi is accused alongside one-Samuel Gateri of authoring and circulating an alarming letter that alleged that there was a plan to assassinate DP Ruto in order to stop him from ascending to presidency in 2022.

The two were, on July 22, 2019, charged with publishing a letter dated May 30, 2019 with the aim of causing anxiety to the general public. They denied the charges.

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Siaya man kills wife, runs to sister’s place to hide

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Police in Siaya County have arrested a middle-aged man accused of killing his wife on Tuesday.

The suspect, identified as Joel Masiye, allegedly beat up his spouse to death over reasons yet to be known.

The incident happened at the couple’s home in Mundeku Village in Butere, Kakamega County.

It is said Masiye returned home while drunk and picked a fight with his wife. So vicious was the confrontation that it led to the death of Masiye’s partner.

After allegedly killing his wife, Masiye boarded a bus to his sister’s place in Siaya Town.

However, the suspect’s sister handed him over to police after he confessed that he had killed his spouse.

Masiye is being held at Siaya Police Station, whereas the deceased was taken to St Mary’s Hospital morgue in Mumias.

Police say they are investigating the matter, and will arraign Masiye once the probe is complete.

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Edwin Sifuna responds to Mudavadi’s mockery on Raila, exposes him badly

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Raila Odinga-led Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party Secretary General Edwin Sifuna has told off ANC party leader Musalia Mudavadi over his Monday remarks against ODM party leader Raila Odinga.

Sifuna has told Mudavadi to desist from unnecessary tirades against Raila.

According to ODM’s Tuesday evening twitter post, Sifuna says the former Vice Presidents’s remarks on Raila were baseless and unwarranted, and only aimed at attracting cheap political mileage which doesn’t come so easily.

“SG @edwinsifuna tells ANC Leader Musalia Mudavadi to desist from unnecessary tirades against PL @RailaOdinga. He says the former VP’s remarks on the PL on Monday were baseless and unwarranted, only aimed at attracting cheap political mileage which doesn’t come so easily,” tweeted ODM.

During campaigns for ANC candidate Eliud Owalo, who is Mr Odinga’s former aide in Kibra, Mr Mudavadi claimed that the ODM leader was desperate to an extent of courting “corrupt governors” with a promise of protection.

“Several governors were called to Kibra. Most of them who have swindled public funds from county governments and their files are already with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and are now hiding behind the old man (Mr Odinga) to be protected during investigations,” Mr Mudavadi said.

Last week, a handful of governors were in Kibra to campaign for ODM candidate Bernard Imran Okoth. They included Wycliffe Oparanya (Kakamega), Anne Waiguru (Kirinyaga), Alfred Mutua (Machakos), James Ongwae (Kisii), John Nyagarama (Nyamira), Charity Ngilu (Kitui) and Kivutha Kibwana (Makueni).

Sifuna claimed Mr Mudavadi was “the biggest baggage” Mr Odinga has had to carry since 2002.

“Now that Raila has taken away that support, Musalia needs to be a man,” Mr Sifuna said.

Mr Mudavadi’s outburst, Mr Sifuna said, must be seen in the context of “a jilted lover, a parasite abandoned by its long suffering host.”

He added: “Musalia must chart his own political path and shed the addiction to free manna from the direction and generosity of Raila Odinga. There will be no more salvage missions for political bagasse of the Musalia variety.

“The process of becoming a man is painful, hence the outbursts, but it is a journey he must now take. He must look himself in the mirror, for his imminent fall to oblivion is his own making.”

Mr Siguna further noted that:  “Raila has made it clear that everyone accused of corruption or any other crimes must carry their own cross. Indeed, there are ODM governors in court facing various charges and if Raila were to shield anyone from prosecution he would have started with his own!”

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Female student tied to her hostel bed, gang-raped by thugs

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

A female student at Kenya Industrial Training Institute in Nakuru was allegedly gang-raped on Sunday night. 

The first-year student, who is currently admitted to Nakuru Level Five Hospital is said to have been accosted by three men at about 3 am in her on-campus hostel room.

According to K24 Digital, three men armed with knives, broke into the girls’ hostel and went straight to the victim’s room where they tied the student to her bed.

It is alleged that the attackers knew her by name, with eyewitnesses claiming that they also knew she would be alone in her cubicle on Sunday.

“The attackers knew the victim by name even where she slept and that she was alone in the room, however, she has been out of the school compound since Friday and only arrived at the hostel Sunday evening,” a close friend narrated. 

The victim’s father blamed the school management for security lapses.

 He said he was informed of the incident via phone by the hostel matron on Monday morning.

The school management acknowledged the incident and said they had reported to the police for further action.

Confirming the incident, Nakuru Town East Police Commander Ellena Kabukuru said police have launched investigations, assuring students and parents the culprits will be caught and charged.  

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Things Sarah Wairimu want from slain Cohen’s Kitisuru home with Court’s permission

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Sarah Wairimu, the chief suspect in the murder of Tob Cohen, has asked the court to grant her permission to access her Kitisuru home so that she can collect her clothes, shoes, vehicle and other belonging.

Wairimu, through her lawyer Philip Murgor, says she is spending a lot of money on purchasing new clothes.

In the application filed by Murgor, Wairimu says her vehicle is not part of the investigations, and, therefore, it should be released to her.

The suspect claims she is surviving on lifts from relatives and friends and taxi rides, which she terms as expensive.

The prosecution, through Catherine Mwaniki, objected to the application, saying everything in Wairimu’s house is treated as part of exhibit in Tob Cohen’s murder case, and, therefore, should not be tampered with.

Justice Stella Mutuku declined to issue any order Wednesday, instead, asking Murgor to file a formal application that will be heard on Tuesday, November 5.

Wairimu, who in early October pleaded not guilty to killing Tob Cohen, is out on a Ksh2 million bond.

Tob Cohen, who went missing on July 19, was on September 13 found murdered, and his body dumped in an underground water tank at his Kitisuru home.

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75-yr-old Kakamega man caught defiling a 14-year-old girl in a thicket

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

A 75-year-old man from Ikolomani in Kakamega County was on Saturday evening (October 26) arrested on suspicion of defiling a 14-year-old girl.

The suspect allegedly lured the teenager into a thicket, where he is said to have committed the crime.

Police say the septuagenarian “paid” the girl Ksh100 for the act.

He will be arraigned on Monday, October 28.

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UoN lecturer’s son died of stomach ulcers and obesity-related complications

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

An autopsy report by the government pathologist has revealed a university of Nairobi lecturer’s son died of stomach ulcers and obesity-related complications.

The lecturer was on Wednesday arrested after the decomposing body of her 13-year-old son was found wrapped in a blanket in their house in Nairobi’s South B estate.

Government Pathologist, Peter Ndegwa, said that the 13-year-old boy, Emmanuel Inyama, whose decomposing body was found in their house, was stressed, and weighed almost 100kgs.

The autopsy was done on Thursday, October 25, with the findings contradicting earlier reports by the lecturer, Annah Khahugani’, that the boy had slipped and injured himself, Standard reported.

“He was unkempt. His hair was unshaven. He was not in a very good state and he was very obese. His ulcers could have been stress induced,” Ndegwa said.

According to the government pathologist, there were no physical injuries on the boy’s body which was discovered the caretaker of the apartment where Khahugani lived in Nairobi’s South B estate.

He had gone to collect rent from her and when she did not answer the door, he peeked through the window.

“I saw a body covered in a blanket on the chair. There was a stench and houseflies were hovering over the body. I alerted the police immediately,” Mwangi said.

According to Mwangi, Annah and her son had lived in the house for about five years. He said she was an extremely religious person and from time to time, she would notify him in case she had prayer meetings at her house.

She told police the son fell and died in the house. She said she did not take him to the hospital because she does not believe in hospitals.

She was detained at Industrial Area Police Station ahead of a planned visit to a psychiatric for assessment of her mental status.Annah was found hiding in a cupboard after officers broke into the house. 

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Female MP urges Court to lock up her estranged ‘husband’

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Gilgil MP Martha Wangari has urged High Court judge Daniel Ogembo to deny her estranged partner Peter Karanja bail, saying Karanja, who is a suspect in the murder of Tob Cohen, does not have a fixed abode as claimed in his bail application.

Karanja, in his pre-bail report, told the court that his home is in Gilgil Town, where he lives with Martha Wangari.

The MP through her lawyer, George Kimani, however, denies that Karanja owns the said-house.

“The said-house No. 063 in Gilgil Town is my property. He [Karanja] has no right to claim occupancy or ownership of it. Therefore, Karanja cannot persuade the court to free him on ground that he has a fixed abode,” said Wangari in her affidavit.

The lawmaker, however, says she and Karanja are currently embroiled in a court case over the ownership of the Gilgil Town property.

She alleges that Karanja, whom she refers to as an acquaintance and not ex-husband, is trying to “illegally” occupy the house by alleging that they were married through a customary arrangement.

“That is not true. I have never been his wife,” she said, adding: “He was an acquaintance, whom I have since parted ways with, and I can prove that.”

Karanja, however, says he got married to Wangari in 2010 and were blessed with two children.

Their relationship, however, got turbulent a few years ago, leading to their separation, which is yet to be ratified through divorce, said Karanja.

Wangari, on her part, says the only known residence that Karanja can claim is that of his parents at Miti Mingia area in Gilgil.

The MP sought to see Karanja’s pre-bail report.

The accused’s lawyer, however, objected to Wangari’s application, saying she has no direct or indirect interest in the Tob Cohen murder case.

The State also opposed the parliamentarian’s application, saying: “It is not clear what role she wants to play in the case.”

“This [Tob Cohen murder case] is not a divorce case, it is not a land case. The probation officer has captured the marital status of the accused and the current status of the house. It is already before you [Justice Ogembo] for the court to make its decision,” said the State counsel.

In response to the two objections, Wangari said she has a right to seek any public document from any agency, given Article 35 of the Kenyan Constitution allows her to do so.

“The same way the Constitution protects any other Kenyan, I do not need to be invited in any case by the prosecution,” said Wangari through her lawyer.

Karanja’s family pleaded with the court to release him on bail, saying the accused has a permanent residence, is God-fearing and has no history of criminal activities.

The suspect’s sister said Karanja is the sole bread-winner in their family, and that he should be released so that he can continue “paying school fees for our sister who is living with disability”.

Karanja’s kin, led by his father and sister, say should he be freed on bail, the family will sell a 1-acre parcel of land belonging to Karanja’s grandmother so that they can raise the money.

Justice Ogembo rejected Wangari’s plea to have Karanja denied bail.

The suspect’s bail ruling will be made on Tuesday, October 29.

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