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The government has explained why it reneged on its promise to procure 500 hospital beds from two Kenyan young innovators.
In July last year, the government offered to buy the locally-manufactured standard beds at Sh68,000 each from the two Kiambu-based innovators, Mungai Gathogo (26), and Joseph…
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Lawrence Warunge, a 22-year-old student who confessed he killed five people including four members of his family has been declared unfit to stand trial.
Kiambu law courts Magistrate, Patricia Gichohi made the ruling on Tuesday following a mental assessment test carried out on the suspect.
The court…
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Suspected Kenyan drug trafficker, Mansur Mohamed Surur, alias Mansour, has been extradited to the US to face charges.
This comes a month after a Nairobi court okayed the extradition of the 60-year-old, following an application filed by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Noordin Haji.
Milimani…
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A new bill seeking to encourage Kenyans in the diaspora to invest back home has been tabled in the Senate.
The Kenya Citizenship and Immigration (Amendment) Bill, 2020, is sponsored by Murang’a Senator Irungu Kang’ata, who is also the Senate Majority Whip.
If passed into law, Kenyans living and…
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The government has declared Kapedo a Special Operation Area in the wake of the recent banditry attacks.
Interior Cabinet Secretary, Fred Matiang’i on Monday gazetted the war-tone area as a special operation zone and extended the dusk-to-dawn curfew.
Matiang’i indicated that the curfew, which runs…
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Interior Principal Secretary, Dr. Karanja Kibicho has taken action after impeached Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko claimed that he planned chaos in 2017.
On Monday, Kibicho recorded a statement at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters in Nairobi over the allegations.
Speaking on…
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Traders at the busy City Market in Nairobi were on Monday left in puzzle after a mysterious crucifix was discovered underneath the facility.
The discovery was made by construction workers, who were digging out a section of the market to replace the dilapidated floor.
Archaeologists from the…
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ODM leader Raila Odinga has appealed to residents of the Mt Kenya region to rally behind the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI).
Speaking during an interview on Kameme TV on Monday, Odinga noted that the Mt Kenya region will benefit the most if BBI sails through.
While insisting that BBI is not…
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Kenya’s Health Ministry has agreed to buy a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine at $7.70 (about Sh770).
This is after the government signed an agreement with AstraZeneca for the distribution of 40 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Chief Administrative Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Mercy…
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A new survey by Infotrak Research has ranked Kenyan healthcare workers as the top performers in 2020.
Health workers received an approval rating of 76 percent for working on the frontline in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The end-year study ranked the media (72%), religious organizations…
