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The court has ordered the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Inspector of General Police to stop posting photos of suspects on social media. High Court Justice Wilfrida Okwany has issued the restraining orders pending hearing and determination of a petition filed by a Nairobi…
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Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested a man suspected to have been conning unsuspecting Kenyans using Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) documents. The DCI says the suspect identified as Peter Nyabogoye Kaunda, 25, was busted printing several classified KDF…
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The family of a Kenyan man who was reportedly arrested while attempting to smuggle miraa into India is pleading with Kenya's ministry of Foreign Affairs to intervene and have their son released. 26-year-old Richard Koome was nabbed with 66 kilograms of khat at an airport in Mumbai on May 28th and…
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Yatta Member of Parliament Charles Kilonzo’s mother, Agnes Njeri is fighting for her life at Nairobi Hospital after she was attacked by unknown assailants on Saturday night.   Assailants carrying machetes are said to have attacked her after breaking into her home in Ndalani, Yatta Constituency…
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A receptionist who owns property worth millions of shillings is among 20 National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) officials whose warrants of arrest have been issued over grand corruption at the agency. The Star reports that 39-year-old Fredrick Sagwe Onyancha, a receptionist at NHIF, owns eight…
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Security authorities have launched an operation to curtail operations of the dreaded criminal group Mungiki following its resurgence in the Central Kenya region. Police say the outlawed organization has reestablished its activities in Kirinyaga, Murang’a, Kiambu, Nyandarua and Nyeri counties.…
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The Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) has ordered a probe into the countrywide Mpesa outage experienced for several hours on Saturday. ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has directed the Communications Authority (CA) and the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) to investigate the…
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Officials working at State House as well as Deputy President William Ruto's office have been implicated in a fake tender scam where several unsuspecting Kenyans have lost millions of shillings.  Daily Nation reports that a group with links to rogue State House and Ruto's employees lure rich…
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Auditor-General Edward Ouko says that the Office of the President cannot account for Sh2.7 billion. An audit report compiled by Ouko shows that President Kenyatta's office spend the said funds on confidential expenditure in 2014, 2015 and 2016 financial years. The reports shows that the Presidency…
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The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) says it has recovered Sh20 billion of looted taxpayers cash from corrupt cartels in the last five years. EACC Chairperson Eliud Wabukhala says that the commission successfully recovered Sh207 million between July and December this year, and a further…