Heavy rains just forced Nairobi's governor to greenlight demolitions along the city's riverbanks.
Sakaja's riverbank demolition plan
Johnson Sakaja confirmed that structures on the riverbanks will go.
Heavy machinery is already assembled for the job.
Brookside was name-dropped as a repeat-flooding hotspot.
Sakaja called these painful but necessary decisions.
Joint committee's 48-hour directive
A multi-agency damage report got a two-day deadline.
Drainage blockages across all 17 sub-counties will get mapped.
Silt clearing, road repairs, and stormwater upgrades are prioritized.
Riparian and floodplain recovery efforts are ramping up.
Satellite mapping for flood preparedness
GIS and satellite maps of Nairobi's river corridors are...
A repatriation deal for Kenyans stuck in Russia's military just got hammered out in Moscow by Kenya's top diplomat.
Mudavadi-Lavrov agreement
Musalia Mudavadi and Sergey Lavrov struck a deal in Moscow.
Safe repatriation of Kenyan fighters is the centerpiece.
Future recruitment of Kenyans into Russia's military stops immediately.
Compensation covers injured individuals and the families of the deceased.
Russia's stance on voluntary contracts
Lavrov maintained that every recruit signed up voluntarily.
Those contracts had zero repatriation provisions baked in.
Termination runs through Russia's Ministry of Defense process.
Lavrov noted that recruits come from Asia and other continents.
Kenya's legal and diplomatic angle
Mudavadi...
A Ksh 17 billion State House budget is getting torched by a presidential candidate who wants 80% of it redirected elsewhere.
Matiang'i blasts State House spending
Fred Matiang'i called it historic public-fund wastage.
He questioned why the State House outspends Moi Teaching Hospital.
His point: no surgeries or transplants happen there.
Remarks dropped at Weithaga ACK Church in Murang'a County.
Budget reallocation pledge
Matiang'i vowed to slash State House funding by 80%.
Ksh 7 billion would shift to education under his plan.
Another Ksh 7 billion gets earmarked for healthcare.
State House would survive on roughly Ksh 3 billion.
Election bribery accusation
Matiang'i claimed the bloated budget funds 2027 vote-buying.
He framed it...
An 80-year-old doctor collapsing inside a DCI van right before arraignment just amplified the firestorm around Nairobi Hospital's leadership crisis.
Medical emergency at Milimani courts
Dr. Job Obwaka fell ill while stuck in a DCI vehicle.
Paramedics rushed in, and an ambulance hauled him away.
Family, lawyers, and fellow doctors were visibly alarmed.
He had been held in that van since early morning.
Obwaka's controversial weekend arrest
DCI officers grabbed Obwaka outside his NSSF Building clinic.
His detention at Muthaiga Police Station spanned the weekend.
Kenya's medical community has been loudly pushing back.
Falsified membership register allegations
Detectives suspect Obwaka helped fake KHA's membership rolls.
ODPP stacked...
Affiliate parties inside Kenya Kwanza just got an ultimatum from a senator: dissolve into UDA or lose Cabinet seats.
Cherargei's merger ultimatum
Samson Cherargei wants all coalition parties folded into the UDA.
Refusal means no Cabinet slots or speaker roles.
He framed UDA as the only viable ship for 2027.
Smaller parties are dead weight in his view.
ANC merger hit a legal wall
Amani National Congress dissolved into UDA in early 2025.
Kenya's High Court ruled that the merger was unconstitutional.
ANC's internal rules and member input got bypassed.
UDA leaders shrugged it off as already settled.
Kenya Kwanza's coalition math
The alliance still houses over a dozen parties.
FORD-Kenya and other outfits remain technically...
A conductor's fatal fall from a moving matatu just landed the driver a two-month sentence on the Thika Superhighway.
Driver convicted over conductor's death
Paul Nyambuto Momanyi got two months or a Ksh 15,000 fine.
Magistrate Thamara Irene delivered the ruling.
Momanyi drove matatu KDM 246E with an unsecured door.
Conductor Kenneth Kamau Kaheri died at the scene.
Court draws the line on driver duty
Irene stressed drivers bear ultimate safety responsibility.
Passenger screams were how Momanyi even found out.
His no-prior-record plea didn't sway the court.
Personal hardship doesn't override the duty of care.
Vehicle fails safety inspection
Post-incident checks revealed multiple safety-standard failures.
Questions surfaced about...
A Sh5 billion youth-enterprise fund has already backed 120,000 young Kenyans in launching their businesses, per President Ruto.
Ruto pitches jobs through infrastructure
William Ruto urged youth to grab government-linked job openings.
Roads, housing, markets, and hostels are the pipeline.
He admitted that past governments lacked a clear youth plan.
Digital jobs push goes global
A digital-work initiative connects Kenyan youth to online gigs.
Local and international markets are both targeted.
Ruto wants young people plugged into the global economy.
Youth enterprise funding
The government earmarked Sh5 billion for youth-led businesses.
Around 120,000 young people have already got a boost.
The program helps them launch and run their...
Delayed surgeries and supply shortages forced long-serving doctors to personally beg for a presidential intervention at Nairobi Hospital.
Nairobi Hospital's ownership structure
Aden Duale confirmed that the Kenya Hospitals Association owns it.
It operates as a company limited by guarantee.
That structure means zero shareholders exist.
Privatization or acquisition is legally off the table.
Governance and financial mess
Internal dysfunction has stalled several critical surgeries.
Essential medical supplies have been running short.
Financial mismanagement sits at the core of it.
Duale openly acknowledged the institutional struggles.
Presidential involvement gets triggered
Veteran doctors personally requested the president's help...
Kenya's upcoming Nairobi Metropolitan Police Unit is getting its blueprint from Singapore's playbook.
Murkomen eyes Singapore's policing model
Kipchumba Murkomen tagged Singapore as a key security partner.
His focus covers cybersecurity, digital government, and ICT training.
Singapore's setup offers benchmarks for command structure.
Community-trust tactics are part of the package.
Bilateral talks at the Vienna fraud summit
Murkomen met Singapore's Law Minister Edwin Tong there.
Deeper cooperation on law enforcement got explored.
Digital tools and community policing dominated the conversation.
Nairobi Metropolitan Police Unit roadmap
President Ruto greenlit the unit's framework recently.
Murkomen wants it to be tech-forward and...
