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Former US President Barack Obama is set to meet President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga during his visit to Kenya next month. His Communication Director, Kate Hill said Obama will land in Kenya on July 15th, meet President Kenyatta and Odinga before flying to his ancestral…
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Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) Managing Director Charles Ongwae is set to be charged with several offences including attempted murder, over the importation of contraband goods into the country. Ongwae was arrested alongside ten other KEBS officials on Friday in connection to the illegal goods…
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Kipipiri Member of Parliament Amos Kimunya has accused Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i of playing public relations gimmick in the ongoing fight against contraband goods. The veteran politician dismissed Matiang'i's recent claims that illegal sugar smuggled into the country was found to…
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A section of Members of Parliament have threatened to impeach Trade and Industrialization Cabinet Secretary Adan Mohammed. The MPs said they will table an ouster motion against Adan if President Kenyatta doesn't fire him over recent revelations of poisonous contraband sugar in the market.  Led…
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Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua has moved to the Supreme Court seeking to have a ruling by the Appeals Court, which nullified his election earlier this month, overturned. In his appeal filed at the country's highest court on Friday, Mutua maintains that he won the election fairly and that the…
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Former Transport Cabinet Secretary Michael Kamau is set to face corruption charges after the Court of Appeal dismissed a petition seeking to block further prosecution. On Friday, a three-judge bench made of Justices Mohammed Warsame, William Ouko and Kithurima Minoti ruled that Kamau was never…
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Police have arrested Kenya Bureau of Standards Managing Director Charles Ongwae and 10 other officials in connection with the contraband sugar scandal. The 11 were reportedly arrested on Friday and driven to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters along Kiambu Rd in Nairobi…
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Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru wants the court to grant her more time to serve Google with court papers in a defamation suit. In a suit where she is seeking compensation for an alleged defamatory article against her published by a Kenyan blogger in 2014, Waiguru wants the judge to give her more…
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Malindi Member of Parliament Aisha Jumwa has declared that she will support Deputy President William Ruto's 2022 presidential bid. Reacting to reports that the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party was planning to remove her from the powerful Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) for allegedly…
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The Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Hajji wants Youth Affairs Principal Secretary Lilian Omollo and National Youth Service (NYS) Director-General Richard Ndubai to remain in jail even after they were released on bond. On Thursday, the DPP urged the court to suspend the release of Ms Omollo…