KENYA NEWS

A debt officer attached to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has been arrested for soliciting a Sh50,000 bribe. Ismail Ahmed Mire, who is stationed at KRA offices at JKUAT towers, is alleged to have demanded the money from a complainant in order to amend a wrongly accrued VAT tax penalty. The…

President Ruto has nominated 50 persons to fill the position of Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) in various ministries. The list of the 50 CAS nominees has been submitted to the National Assembly for consideration and approval. Some of the notable names on the list include former Nairobi…

Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition leader Raila Odinga has threatened to sue President Ruto for defamation. Odinga said the president has continued to tarnish his name by associating him with the 1982 attempted coup even though he was cleared of treason charges. Speaking during a public rally in…

Two suspects believed to have defrauded an American national of $1 million (Sh130 million) in a fake gold scam have been arraigned in a Nairobi court. Nicholas Otieno Ndolo, the director of DSI Mining and Minerals Ltd, and Thomas Otieno Ngoe, the director of AFRICORP Legal Consultancy, were charged…

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has clarified the theft of electronic equipment from its warehouses. The election commission said it lost 952 electronic voter identification devices (EVID), 125 biometric voter registration (BVR) kits, and 1,315 hard disks. In its Public…

President Ruto has warned Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition leader Raila Odinga against holding unlawful protests.  Insisting that Kenya is a country governed by the rule of law and no one was above the law, Ruto said protests resulting in the destruction of lives and property as well as…

A Chinese national was on Wednesday charged in a Kiambu court for stealing and exporting goat testicles worth over Sh6 million. Lei Yunyan pleaded not guilty to the charges before Senior Principal Magistrate Manuela Kinyanjui and was released on Sh500,000 cash bail or an alternative Sh1 million…

Police in Kitui have launched investigations into the suspected killing of a 17-year-old Form Two student. Syengo Nyamai from Katulani was reportedly murdered by unknown people barely two weeks after he won a Sh200,000 lottery from a local sports betting company. The Mavindini Day Mixed Secondary…

Rubis Energy Kenya CEO Jean-Christian Bergeron, who was deported last year, is back in the country, according to reports. Business Daily reports that Bergeron made a quiet return to the country and resumed his role at the giant oil marketer in October last year, weeks after President Ruto assumed…

Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma has castigated US Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman for allegedly pushing the LGBTQ agenda in the country. This comes after the ambassador divulged that the US is actively championing the recognition and rights of LGBTQ persons in Kenya. "Over the past week, my team and…