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At least 100 commercial sex workers were on Thursday arrested during a crackdown in Nairobi CBD. The operation was conducted by officers from the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) in collaboration with the police. The clampdown came after traders in the city centre complained of nuisance, saying…
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A man accused of forging academic documents to enroll in pilot training has appeared in court. Ahmad Nassir Dirie Olow, who flew Kenyans for eight years, is charged with making a false certificate for the 2007 KCSE examination, purporting it to be from the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC…
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A family from Nyandarua is seeking answers following the death of their kin in unclear circumstances at a prayer centre in Nakuru County. 26-year-old Geoffrey Macharia Kimemia was found dead on August 13th in a hilly area at Heaven's Gate Prayer Mountain in Elementaita, where he had accompanied his…
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Businessman-turned politician Jimmy Wanjigi has called on Kenyans to back his 2022 presidential bid. Speaking in Nairobi during a meeting with aspirants in the 2022 general election, the tycoon stated that it is time for the third-generation liberators to take over the mantle of the country’s…
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President Kenyatta has extended the nationwide night curfew for a further 60 days following a spike in COVID-19 infections and deaths. While announcing a raft of new measures aimed at combating the spread of the pandemic, the president said the curfew will be enforced from 10pm to 4am countrywide.…
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ODM leader Raila Odinga has ruled out moving to the Supreme Court if the Court of Appeal upholds the High Court verdict that declared the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) process unconstitutional. Speaking on Wednesday, he stated that BBI proponents will not waste their waste time challenging the…
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Five police officers have been arrested in Ruiru, Kiambu County over robbery with violence allegations. The five are said to have arrested a man in Ruiru town on August 12th for flouting curfew rules and handcuffed him.  One of them took the man’s mobile phone, demanded his MPesa secret code,…
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A housemaid was on Wednesday arraigned in a Nairobi court for allegedly defiling her employer’s underage son. Sabina Mwikali Muasya was charged with defiling a 12-year-old boy for more than six months. The court heard that the accused person committed an indecent act with the child by touching his…
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Mahoo Ward Member of County Assembly (MCA) Ronald Sagurani has passed away. Sagurani, who was also the leader of minority in Taita Taveta County Assembly, died at a Mombasa hospital on Tuesday night. Reports indicate that the politician died of COVID-19 complications while undergoing treatment at…
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Six police officers implicated in the murder of Embu brothers Benson Njiru and Emmanuel Mutura have been detained for 14 days. The suspects were arraigned before Milimani law courts Magistrate Daniel Ndugi, who allowed police to detain them for two weeks pending completion of investigations. “I…