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Lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi on Wednesday night tore into President Uhuru Kenyatta, his handshake partner the ODM party leader Raila Odinga and COTU secretary General Francis Atwoli.

Appearing on Citizen TV’s JKLIVE hosted by Jeff Koinange, the senior counsel dropped bombshells and serious hard tackles targeting the trio.

Speaking on Uhuru and Raila’s good shared relationship, the lawyer stated that in a presidential system like Kenya’s, the president cannot share executive authority with members from another political party.

Ahmednasir said that it is a high time the President told Kenyans what is going on between him and his Deputy Dr William Samoei Ruto.

He further stated that the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) is completely unnecessary, citing that it is a game show played by the President and honourable Raila.

According to he lawyer, some of the things the President is doing with the opposition, with Raila, are completely against the constitution.

He also noted that it is hypocritical to say that Raila was coming to save Jubilee, citing that Raila’s history is very clear; he never comes to save a party.

However, the COTU boss was not spared. Atwoli, he is a great critic of DP Ruto has in most cases viewed as an advisor to the head of state.

But according to Grand Muller, Atwoli can’t offer any advice to the president. Ahmednasir notes that the trade unionist is barely illiterate, and can only crack jokes and throw telephones.

“What advice can Atwoli give the President? Atwoli is barely literate… What advice can he give to a President?… maybe crack jokes or throw telephones,” he said.

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Deputy President Dr William Ruto on Wednesday May 20, 2020 got back to work, kicking of his usual inspection of government development projects.

The second in command distributed food to families in Nachu, and inspected the construction of Marengeta Dam, Kikuyu, Kiambu County.

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Taking to his official twitter handle Wednesday evening, Ruto said that the country is committed to ensuring that vulnerable Kenyans are supported during this tough period of the Covid-19 crisis, besides coming up with broad plans that will facilitate the country’s rapid recovery from the disease.

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“We are committed to ensuring that vulnerable Kenyans are supported during this tough period of the COVID-19 crisis besides coming up with broad plans that will facilitate the country’s rapid recovery from the disease,” he tweeted.

He noted that 600 families in Nachu Ward were part of the wider 3,600 households that benefited from his food distribution, to shield Kenyans from adverse effects of the virus outbreak.

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DP Ruto said that the government is also investing in various infrastructural projects such as the construction of the Marengeta Dam, which is part of dams that will benefit more than 120,000 households countrywide.

“We are also investing in various infrastructural projects such as the construction of the Marengeta Dam, which is part of dams that will benefit more than 120,000 households countrywide,” he tweeted.

The DP has been seen as an isolated man in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government, since the head of state shook hands with ODM party leader Raila Odinga.

Although Deputy President William Ruto’s supporters blame the media for casting unfair attention on him, the real pressure according to the them, is coming from powerful people in the Jubilee Party who have been mobilised to derail his chances of becoming president.

The head of state recently launched a purge in Jubilee, that is targeting DP Ruto’s allies. This saw Elgeyo Marakwet senator Kipchumba Murkomen and his Nakuru counterpart Susan Kihika lose their posts in the senate as senate majority leader and majority whip respectively.

The purge at the senate is yet again set to see senate deputy speaker Prof Kithure Kindiki lose his post, with 51 senators having already signed an ouster motion tabled by the now senate majority whip Irungu Kang’ata.

Some of the DP’s allies have claimed that the changes in parliament are being done so that Ruto can be easily impeached. In the meantime, President Kenyatta has brought KANU’s Gideon Moi on board through a Jubilee-KANU post poll coalition.

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Westlands MP Tim Wanyonyi has been taken into quarantine.

This happened shortly after the burial of his brother Tony Waswa Wetang’ula, on Wednesday May 20, 2020.

Tony was laid to rest like a Covid-19 victim, with Bungoma Health Workers taking control of the body from the time it arrived at his rural home in Mukhweya village, Kabuchai Constituency in Bungoma County, to the time it was interred.

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The Health workers fumigated the coffin, and immediately took it by the graveside after offloading it from the helicopter that was carrying it.

Tony was interred in a ceremony that lasted almost an hour, with five priests presiding over the ceremony.

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Residents were forced to watch the event from a distance, since only about 60 people were allowed to attend, most of them being close relatives.

Until his death, Tony was Tim Wanyonyi’s personal aide. He is the one who took him to Aga Khan hospital, where he succumbed while undergoing treatment.

Reports indicated that Tony showed fever signs before being rushed to hospital.

A post shared on social media by blogger Robert Alai intimates that Tim Wanyonyi was taken to Quarantine in a chopper that had carried the body.

However, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has said that the government is yet to establish whether Tony, who is also Moses Wetangula’s brother died of Covid-19.

Addressing journalists during the daily Covid-19 briefings on Wednesday May 20, Kagwe said that he could not ascertain until contact tracing was done, highly suggesting that Waswa could have died of Covid-19.

“We cannot respond to that question until we have done the contact tracing [to establish whether Waswa’s contact persons were exposed to coronavirus or not], and indeed certified that what you are saying [that Tony Waswa died of coronavirus] is correct,” said CS Kagwe.

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Residents of Eastleigh in Nairobi and those in Mombasa Old Town will have to face a tough situation as Covid-19 pandemic continues to hit Kenya hard.

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe on Wednesday May 20, 2020 announced the extension of cessation of movement in and out of Eastleigh and Mombasa Old Town.

The cessation will now last until June 6, 2020.

“In order to contain further spread of the virus; there shall be an extension of the cessation of movement in Eastleigh & Old Town until 6th June 2020. Eateries & hawking prohibited until 6th June 2020,” CS Kagwe announced.

This is after CS Kagwe announced 66 more new cases of Covid-19 in the country.

Kagwe said the extension was because the areas were still a challenge in regards to cases surging.

“Mombasa continues to be a challenge. 30 of the 66 cases reported today are from Mombasa,” Kagwe said.

Kenya’s Covid-19 cases have risen to 1,029 with 66 new cases recorded.

This is the highest number since the first case recorded.

Kagwe said 64 of the new cases are Kenyans, while two are foreigners.

A total of 30 are from Mombasa, while 26 are from Nairobi. Three of the new cases are in Kajiado.

The government locked down Eastleigh and Old Town on May 6 2020 as coronavirus cases surged.

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Interior CS Fred Matiang’i, in a gazette notice dated May 20, 2020 has declared Monday May 25 a public holiday in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 (1) of the Public Holidays Act.

This is to allow muslims mark Idd-ul-Fitr.

The Muslims across the world began observing the holy month of Ramadan on April 23.

The festival of Idd-ul-Fitr, the Festival of Fast-breaking, is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. 

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Muslims believe that it was during the month of Ramadan that the text of the Qur’an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.

Muslims celebrate Idd-ul-Fitr with prayers called “Salat Al Eid” in Arabic.

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Bungoma senator Moses Wetang’ula and Westlands MP Timothy Wanyonyi’s brother Tony Waswa was on Wednesday 20, 2020 laid to rest in their rural home in Sirisia Constituency, Bungoma County.

The late was however, accorded a Covid-19-like burial.

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Tony passed on while undergoing treatment at the Agha Khan Hospital in Nairobi last Friday. Villagers and other residents of Sirisia have been forced to crane their necks over fence to catch the burial ceremony.

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At least five priests led the ceremony that lasted for less than an hour as the family observed coronavirus health guidelines, with officials from the Ministry of Health Handling the body from the moment it arrived by a helicopter, to the time of interment.

Away from the graveside where the men of God said prayers before his remains could be lowered, sat four staffs from the Health Ministry’s COVID-19 response team. The four donned overflowing white personal protective gears that only left faces uncovered.

Kenyans on social media are now questioning whether the late died of Covid-19, following the way he was buried.

Until his death, the late was an aide to Wanyonyi who has been an lawmaker at the National Assembly since 2013.

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Kenya has yet again been granted a multi-billion loan.

The World Bank has approved a $1 billion (Sh106 billion) soft loan to tyhe Country.

The move is likely to strengthen the country’s dwindling foreign reserve and support weak shilling.

The grant is coming just a week after IMF gave Kenya $739 million (Sh79 billion) Rapid Credit Facility to help the country international cover the balance of payments shortfalls this year.

” WB Board gives full approval to Kenya’s DPO of USD 1Billion. This is the largest DPO we’ve ever received. The fact that World Bank does not provide budget support to countries with weak Macro framework is a testimony of the confidence levels of the bank in our new policy reforms,” Treasury CS Ukur Yatani tweeted.

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Former sports minister Rashid Echesa is now using coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to get his impounded high-end cars back.

Echesa has asked a Nairobi court to order the release of his Range Rover so as to allow him make necessary travels.

Echesa, through his lawyer Bryan Khaemba, told Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate that ever since his vehicle was confiscated on March 2, 2020, he has been forced to use public transport.

On March 11, 2020, Echesa filed an application in court seeking to have his vehicle, a Range Rover model of registration plate KCR 786H, returned to him.

And now, Khaemba has gone back to court on his client’s behalf; this time around, arguing Echesa could catch coronavirus – “which is life-threatening” — should he continue using public transport.

In the March 11 application, Echesa also urged the court to instruct the DCI to release his two pistols, arguing that being a former Cabinet minister, his life can be on the line, and, therefore, he needs the guns to enhance his security.

He wanted the firearms — a Beretta 92 and a Ceska pistol — released pending the hearing and determination of his case.

Also confiscated, Echesa claimed, were his 104 9mm rounds of ammunition, three gun holsters and a Ceska magazine.

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Narok Senator Ledama Ole Kina’s troubles seem to be deepening.

The vocal lawmaker was Tuesday May 19, issued with a magistrate Court’s summon to have him appear in Court on June 2, 2020.

This follows a hate speech that was spoken by the lawmaker while appearing in a televised interview in February, 2019.

The summon was issued by Magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot after the prosecution counsel James Gachoka stated that they were unable to arrest the Senator due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The charge sheet details that on February 19, the Senator during the JKL show made utterances that were aimed to incite feelings of discrimination against communities that were not Maasai’s living in Narok County.

The utterances reported to have been made state,”..that Maasai issues will be articulated by Maasais not Manje…who can be able to get an audience in Mount Kenya”.

Following the show, Ole Kina received criticism from netizens and leaders in general who accused him of instigating ethnic wars.

This prompted the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) to come out with guns blazing and condemn his actions.

NCIC urged Kenyans to maintain peace and focus on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) as they investigated the matter.

“With regards to the statements made on #JKLive, the matter has come to our attention and we strongly condemn such utterances that may hinder cohesion in the country. We urge Kenyans to maintain peace & continue engaging in the BBI process even as we look into the matter,” NCIC said.

Further, according to the NCIC boss Samuel Kobia, Ole Kina’s remarks had threatened the national cohesion of Narok county and its surrounding environment.

“These invective and diatribe utterances have caused animosity and triggered tension among the different communities living in the county,” he said.

Recently, Ole Kina has been caught up in political wrangles following his election as the chair of the powerful County Public Accounts and Investment Committee (CPAIC).

Senate Minority leader James Orengo opposed his appointment and threatened to withdraw the membership of the minority from the committee, until “an appropriate resolution can be made”

However, the Court halted the removal of Ledama from the committee until the matter is resolved.

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A deal between President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM party leader Raila Odinga will see the former Prime Minister control some of the key ministries in the country.

Raila is set to take control of the ministries in the new changes expected to be announced by President Kenyatta.

According to a local daily, the changes that are aimed at achieving the Country’s economic recovery will see several opposition leaders earn plum jobs.

Sources privy to the planned changes said Raila could be handed a huge portfolio that would see him coordinate several ministries dealing directly with the economy through a new agency to be established in the Executive under the Office of the President.

Treasury, Agriculture, Tourism, Industrialisation and Devolution are some of the dockets that the former Prime Minister would be entrusted with to coordinate.

The outfit to be headed by Raila will be called the Multi-Agency Economic Recovery Team. It will be directly answerable to the President.

The agency could also bring together eminent political leaders.

In the proposed arrangement, Raila will head the Economic Commission or Council that will superintend the country’s post-coronavirus economic recovery.

The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on the country, with the economy on its knees without hope of growth this year.

The new council will have a multi-sectoral approach, working together with a number of state departments relevant to economic recovery, including the National Treasury.

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Co-operative Bank of Kenya has introduced new payment system for utility bills for those in the diaspora.

Kenyans in the diaspora can now comfortably pay utility bills back at home in Kenya via Co-op Bank’s new internet banking.

The bills that can be paid easily by those in the diaspora include KPLC, Pay TV, Water bills among others.

“Customer satisfaction is at the heart of all our innovations. We are giving our customers, a consistent experience across all our platforms, be it on mobile, tablet or web,” Co-op Bank says.

This means that Kenyans who are in countries that are currently under lockdown due to COVID-19, can easily pay bills for those at home comfortably.

For those who have already registered for the bank’s new internet banking system, they need to just log in and proceed to do the transaction/payments.

For the new members, they can register here.

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Former Presidential aspirant Mohamed Abduba Dida has revealed that real cause of errors witnessed on Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) servers.

The commission was on Sunday May 17, 2020 forced to pull down the 2017 General Election report a day after publication following public uproar over numerous irregularities.

The Wafula Chubakati led commission in a statement issued through its social media platforms said the data had been recalled due to few typographic errors occasioned by massive data were noted.

Mwalimu Mohamed Abduba Dida. PHOTO/COURTESY

came under fire for a few glaring mistakes including wrongful listing of Members of Parliament for various constituencies as well as the political parties some of them vied on.

The report listed Suba North MP as Noah Odhiambo instead of Millie Odhiambo, who it also said had vied on an Amani National Congress (ANC) party ticket instead of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party.

Kabondo Kasipul MP was listed as Silvance Osele instead of Dr. Eve Obara; Dagoretti South MP as Dennis Waweru instead of John Kiarie; and the 2017 election winner for Kibra parliamentary seat as Judah Martin Oduor instead of the late Ken Okoth.

However, Abduba Dida has come out to claim that Raila Odinga-led NASA coalition and President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee are the real cause of the errors witnessed.

Through a post on his official twitter account, Dida claims that the viruses that Jubilee and NASA hackers uploaded to IEBC servers are still active.

According to the Alliance for Real Change party leader, IEBC drives must be hard-formatted. The system must also be completely reprogrammed.

Dida says Raila and his team tampered with IEBC systems by hiring hackers to hack into the system. He says Jubilee’s hacker manipulated figures and that is why most winners had same percentage of votes.

NASA’s hackers, according to Dida, hacked into the system to download the evidence. This is why NASA had so much evidence.

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A vocal Tanga Tanga MP has finally opened up on why Deputy President Dr William Ruto has been silent when President Uhuru Kenyatta continues to dewhip his close allies.

The Kimilili Constituency MP Didmus Barasa has this morning taken to social media to answer the question many Kenyans have been asking.

According to the lawmaker, Tanga Tanga as a team operate on a philosophy of never and or not interrupting their enemies when they are making mistakes, and that they get more use from their enemies than from their friends.

The MP went ahead to reveal that Ruto’s camp is studying their enemy’s strength, weakness and intentions, which Tanga Tanga will use to inform their next point of action.

“People have been asking why @WilliamsRuto is silent when his allies are being clipped . As a team we operate on a philosophy of never and or not interrupting our enemies when they are making mistakes and that we get more use from our enemies than from our friends. We are studying their strength, weakness and intentions to inform our next point of action. We are not boarding,” he posted.

DP Ruto’s close allies, the Elgeyo Marakwet senator Kipchumba Murkomen and his Nakuru counterpart Susan Kihika were recently removed from their senate posts, as Senate Majority leader and Majority Whip respectively.

Murkomen’s position was then filled by KANU’s Samuel Poghisio, with Kihika having her position filled by Murang’a senator Irungu Kang’ata.

Days later, Ruto-allied nominated senators received letters from Jubilee, demanding them to explain why they snubbed President Kenyatta’s Parliamentary Group meeting at State House.

Their are other looming changes targeting DP Ruto’s allies in the National Assembly, but the DP is still mum on the issue.

Ruto on Monday May 18 however, broke his silence through the Standard newspaper. The DP while replying to his political enemies said, “I will not be provoked into a fight with President Uhuru Kenyatta,” and asked his supporters not to play into the hands of their rivals.

Reportedly, the DP further went ahead and said, “In war, you don’t show your enemies all the arsenal; you will lose. You must retreat and study how far they can go and strategize on how to counter.”

Unlike him, Dr Ruto has publicly avoided commenting on the coup staged during a Parliamentary Group (PG) meeting chaired by President Kenyatta, the party leader.

The deputy party leader snubbed the meeting, held at State House last Monday, and has reportedly advised his allies to avoid any confrontation with the president.

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Members of Parliament have approved Ksh11 billion for teachers to receive a pay rise. This will see more than 300,000 teachers under the TSC payroll receive an enhanced pay rise.

Teachers from Primary schools who fall under the B5 grade and are paid Ksh24,476 will now get bumped up to C1 and earn Ksh30,595 monthly.

Another 100,000 teachers will also be promoted under the enhanced budget starting July this year. Of these teachers, half are in secondary schools with diploma qualifications.

Primary school teachers, who fall under grade B5 and presently take home Sh24,476, will now be moved up to C1 to earn Sh30,595 per month.Data tabled in Parliament by TSC and approved by MPs shows that Sh2 billion was approved to employ 5,000 new teachers under the 100 per cent transition programme. Another Sh1.2 billion will be used for recruitment of 10,000 intern teachers.

And to prepare for the Grade Five roll out of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), MPs approved Sh1 billion to train teachers.Overall, the legislators approved Sh7 billion to take care of the wage drifts and promotion funds.


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Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has revealed an alleged plan to kick out Deputy President William Ruto.

According to the controversial lawmaker, the owners of the ruling Jubilee party have initiated a secret plot to impeach the second in command once they are done dealing with his allies.

Through his official facebook page on Sunday May 17, 2020, Moses Kuria said that the new Majority whip, the Murang’a senator Irungu Kang’ata as already received instructions to initiate the removal of Prof Kithure Kindiki as Deputy Speaker in the Senate.

According to Moses Kuria, Kindiki will be removed so as to pave way for impeachment of DP Ruto.

“The Jubilee Party Owner Occupier has given express instruction to Sen Irungu Kangata to initiate the removal of Prof Kithure Kindiki as Deputy Speaker in the Senate so as to pave way for impeachment of William Ruto. Like Job we refuse to give up on our Living God. We shall overcome. God will not forsake the righteous to appease the evil,” he posted.

The DP has hence remained silent on the changes that have been happening in Jubilee, but Kimilili Constituency MP Didmus Barasa has this morning taken to social media to answer the question many Kenyans have been asking.

According to the lawmaker, Tanga Tanga as a team operate on a philosophy of never and or not interrupting their enemies when they are making mistakes, and that they get more use from their enemies than from their friends.

The MP went ahead to reveal that Ruto’s camp is studying their enemy’s strength, weakness and intentions, which Tanga Tanga will use to inform their next point of action.

“People have been asking why @WilliamsRuto is silent when his allies are being clipped . As a team we operate on a philosophy of never and or not interrupting our enemies when they are making mistakes and that we get more use from our enemies than from our friends. We are studying their strength, weakness and intentions to inform our next point of action. We are not boarding,” he posted.

DP Ruto’s close allies, the Elgeyo Marakwet senator Kipchumba Murkomen and his Nakuru counterpart Susan Kihika were recently removed from their senate posts, as Senate Majority leader and Majority Whip respectively.

Murkomen’s position was then filled by KANU’s Samuel Poghisio, with Kihika having her position filled by Murang’a senator Irungu Kang’ata.

Days later, Ruto-allied nominated senators received letters from Jubilee, demanding them to explain why they snubbed President Kenyatta’s Parliamentary Group meeting at State House.

Their are other looming changes targeting DP Ruto’s allies in the National Assembly, but the DP is still mum on the issue. 

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Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has been forced to recall the 2017 general elections data that it had uploaded on its website.

This is after the data displayed typographic errors, which the commission says were occasioned by massive data.

The Wafula Chebukati led commission has apologized to Kenyans, saying that the corrected document will be re-uploaded and shared in due course.

“The Commission has recalled the 2017 General Election data that was uploaded on the IEBC website after afew typographic errors occasioned by massive data were noted.The corrected document will be re-uploaded and shared in due course. Inconvenience caused highly regrettable,” posted IEBC.

On Saturday May 16, the commission announced that it had uploaded the 2017 elections data. Kenyans being anxious to know what really happened with the 2017 disputed election, they rushed to click on the shared link, only for them to be disappointed by the typographic errors they encountered.

“The Commission has uploaded the 2017 General Election Data on the IEBC website. Follow the link to access the information.Download: https://bit.ly/2017DataReport,” tweeted IEBC.

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