KENYA NEWS

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President Ruto has told off opposition leader Raila Odinga for opposing his administration’s proposal to increase the statutory monthly deduction to the national pension scheme. Ruto wants the monthly contribution to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) raised from Sh200 to 6 percent of an…
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President Ruto-led United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party will receive the lion’s share of the political parties’ fund for the financial year 2022/2023 after garnering the majority votes in the August 9th general election. 48 political parties have been allocated a total of Sh1.47 billion, with UDA…
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President Ruto has dismissed opposition leader Raila Odinga’s call to involve foreign agencies such as the FBI to solve cases of extra-judicial killings in Kenya. On Thursday, Odinga urged the government to tap foreign detectives to investigate unresolved murders including those of businessman…
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Azimio La Umoja One Kenya coalition party presidential running mate Martha Karua has moved to the East African Court of Justice to challenge the Supreme Court’s ruling on the 2022 presidential election petition. Karua, who filed the petition alongside Muslims for Human Rights (Muhuri) Director…
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A man was on Thursday arraigned in a Nairobi court for forging a degree certificate and using it to secure employment in a bank. Gerald Lumuchele, 26, was charged that on June 13th, 2022, at an unknown location, he forced a degree certificate purporting to have graduated with a second-class honor…
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Opposition leader Raila Odinga has fired a warning at President Ruto’s administration over its intent to impose more taxes on Kenyans. Addressing the media in Nairobi on Thursday, Odinga said Kenyans cannot afford and should not be asked to pay extra taxes, adding that attempts to raise taxes will…
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Opposition leader Raila Odinga has accused President Ruto of orchestrating a politically-motivated witch-hunt against current and former State officials whom he differed with before assuming office. Odinga, who addressed the media on Thursday, cited Ruto’s purported probe into cases of extra-…
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Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has issued a notice to members of the public to identify and collect 233 unclaimed bodies that have been lying at its funeral home for four months. The country’s largest referral hospital said it will seek authority to dispose of the 233 bodies comprising 217…
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The High Court has issued an order freezing four properties of a Treasury official who was found with Sh8.7 million in her MPesa account.  Justice Esther Maina froze the properties belonging to Faith Kiptis pending the conclusion of investigations by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (…
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Kiambu politician Gladys Chania and her farmhand Maurice Kamau Mbugua have been charged with the murder of her husband engineer George Mwangi. The two appeared before Kiambu High Court Judge Mary Kasango on Wednesday where they were charged with jointly murdering Mwangi, who worked as a contractor…