Seven college kids walked free after new security camera footage showed their classmate Lorna Kathambi Karani actually died trying to parkour between balconies at Harmony Plaza Apartments in Ngara. Dennis Kariuki Gitonga, Louis Osiro, Lucy Mora, Ali Kabwana Kamaku, Precious Kendi Mutembei, Austin Ochieng, and Wendy Kerubo had been locked up for a week as suspects, but prosecutors dropped everything once the video proved the 23-year-old Daystar University student just ate it mid-jump.
The magistrate basically turned the hearing into an intervention session and asked the students how their week in jail without booze went. Some cops admitted they had drinking problems while their parents stood there looking devastated. Investigators had...
Nairobi cops are looking into a guy who fell 14 floors from a Kilimani apartment balcony on Kindaruma Road and landed dead on a car roof with both legs shattered. Guards heard the impact, and witnesses say he dropped from a rented place after getting into it with his 48-year-old girlfriend following a weekend drinking session with another dude who bounced before things went sideways.
The woman told police her boyfriend attacked her during an argument, and she shoved him during the scuffle. She apparently crashed out afterward without realizing he went over the edge, and authorities only woke her up when they came knocking. Officers grabbed drugs and empty bottles from the scene, and they arrested her while hunting for the friend who...
Kenya's Public Service Commission started grilling over 13,000 shortlisted grads for 7,000 government internship slots that pay actual money for a year. The whole thing kicked off with Paul Famba running the show across 13 regional spots, and they're wrapping interviews by week's end before shipping winners off to ministries and agencies next month.
Out of nearly 36,000 people who threw their hat in the ring, the chosen ones got SMS notifications and have to drag their original certs and transcripts to in-person sessions. Remote candidates can do phone interviews if they're stuck in the middle of nowhere.
The program exists to give fresh graduates real work experience in government operations while supposedly tackling youth...
Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen told political thugs and whoever bankrolls them that the government's coming for everyone with zero favoritism. He brought this up at a chief's graduation thing in Embakasi after some nasty violence went down in Nairobi, saying anyone rolling around with machetes and clubs for politicians is getting prosecuted. Nearly 6,000 chiefs and assistant chiefs just finished training after some had gone almost three decades without any formal instruction since the 90s.
President Ruto showed up and basically said these local administrators are carrying his whole economic plan on their backs. He pointed out that everything from farming programs to healthcare depends on village-level chiefs doing their jobs, and...
Kenya's central bank put up two long-term government bonds for auction with pretty sweet rates attached. The 30-year paper offers 12% while the 25-year one comes with 13.924%, and bidding closes early next week. Both are reopened securities that mature way out in 2041 and 2046, and they're getting pushed to help plug budget holes at the Treasury.
Investors need to drop at least 50,000 shillings for non-competitive bids or 2 million for competitive ones. Winners get notified through the DhowCSD portal, and settlement happens about a week after the auction wraps. Secondary trading kicks off the same day as settlement in 50,000-shilling chunks.
Banks and pension funds are expected to jump on these since the coupons beat a lot of what's...
The ICC wrapped up its Kenya investigation after years of being front and center in the country's political drama. The prosecutor's office called it quits on active probing, but there's still unfinished business with two people they're hunting down for allegedly messing with witnesses.
Those two fugitives are wanted for supposedly corrupting or trying to corrupt ICC witnesses under Article 70 of the Rome Statute, which is basically witness tampering that threatens the whole justice process. The court is keeping tabs on Kenya and tracking these suspects, but that's about it.
Everything else is done. No new investigations are coming, and the ICC's presence has shrunk down to almost nothing. This whole thing was one of the biggest...
Police are investigating a church brawl in Kariobangi North that left six people hurt and set off a political blame game. Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua says cops and hired thugs attacked the PCEA Church congregation with gunfire and tear gas during a service for a winning ward candidate, and he claims it was payback for voters rejecting a UDA pick. Two DCP supporters got seriously injured in what he called a total violation of sacred space.
Police spokesman Michael Muchiri tells a completely different story. Officers spotted two groups of armed young guys heading toward the church as the Thanksgiving service wrapped up, and they called backup to stop a clash from happening. The fight broke out anyway and spilled onto church...
Three government workers at Kenya's main airport got busted trying to shake down an agent who helps people move to Middle East countries for work. Benson Ouma Okello, Esther Njoki Gakuru, and Denis Marias all worked for the Labour Ministry at JKIA, and they apparently wanted 34,000 shillings to let 78 workers through their checkpoint. Anti-corruption cops set up a sting with the agent, caught them red-handed, and grabbed the cash.
Each suspect paid 50,000 shillings to get out while investigators keep digging. Apparently, this wasn't a one-off thing either. The commission had been hearing reports that these officials were demanding bribes from agents for every single person heading to Middle East jobs, which is pretty messed up...
EACC busted a bribery ring at the Kenya Institute of Highways and Building Technology in Kisii after instructors Philip Dawa and Fidel Omondi allegedly forced students to cough up cash to pass their driving tests. The anti-corruption squad raided the campus and grabbed Omondi with a fat envelope holding 171,000 shillings, and they say he moved 8 million through M-Pesa while Dawa pushed 34 million over three years.
Students had to pay 3,100 shillings or get auto-failed, and some kids passed without even taking the actual test because the instructors split the bribes with NTSA examiners. The whole operation also involved collecting tuition fees through personal phone numbers instead of the official system, and students paid 40,000...
