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  • Police Recover Stolen Goods

    Police in Naivasha have recovered goods worth millions of shillings that were stolen on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway. The goods that include 145 bales of second hand clothes were recovered from an estate in Gilgil town where they were hidden. A Gilgil businessman and his wife were arrested after the goods were recovered from their home. The lorry carrying the cargo before the robbery was found ...

  • Gun Recovered in IFO Dadaab Camp

    Security personnel at the Ifo refugee camp, Dadaab district on Monday evening recovered an Ak 47 rifle and eight rounds of ammunitions. Dadaab District Officer Joseph ole kipuri, said the gun is suspected to have been abandoned by one of the refugees at the camp and was recovered by the police officers who were patrolling the area. This comes barely a week after a Kenyan police reservist, ...

  • IEBC to Probe Kabete MP Over State Post

    The electoral commission is set to investigate the clearance of Kabete MP George Muchai to run for a parliamentary seat without resigning from a state institution. Muchai is the vice chair of the National Industrial Training Authority Board, a state-training institution under the Labour ministry as a nominee of Cotu. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission communication manager Tabitha ...

  • Activists Trained On Police Reforms

    Civil society members from Western have been trained on what to expect from the police after they undergo the forthcoming vetting exercise. Speaking during a three-day workshop in Kakamega town which ended on Friday, Police Reforms Working Group members Caroline Martin and Mzalendo Mufwayia said they intend to sensitise the public on the type of reforms in the police service before the vetting ...

  • MKU Hotel to Cost Sh400 Million

    Mount Kenya University will put up a five star hotel at its Kitale Annex campus at the cost of Sh400 million. Chairman Simon Gicharu said the project will start in September. He said the hotel will be used by students pursuing hospitality and tourism course which will be established at the campus upon the completion of the hotel. "The aim of MKU is to help in improving education in Trans ...

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  • Kenya Elgeyo Marakwet County Tops in Changaa Busaa Abuse

    Elgeyo Marakwet county has been rated as one of the leading in consumption and manufacture of chang'aa and busaa. The government has threatened to arrest parents who allow their children to engage in brewing and consumption of traditional brews. County deputy commissioner Moses Lilan said numerous children have dropped out of school in many parts of the region. "We will round up ...

  • Kenya Copyright Board Raids Local Pay TV Company

    The Kenya Copyright Board has today impounded equipment used by a local Pay TV Company to illegally redistribute the Indian Premier League cricket matches on its cable television platform.The Board says the pay TV firm has continued to unlawfully redistribute, the cricket matches to its subscribers, initially in Nairobi and until today, in ...

  • Kenya Airtel Losses Case Against Former Employees

    AIRTEL has lost a case against its former 63 customer service executives who were protesting their transfer to outsourcing company Spanco Raps Kenya. Industrial court judge Monica Mbaru has now ordered Airtel to compensate the employees for wrongful dismissal in a ruling that will see the mobile phone company spend millions. According to the employees' lawyers, Rachier and Amollo ...

  • Kenya Squatters evicted in night demolition

    GILGIL , KENYA: Tens of squatters were forced to sleep in the open after hired youths demolished their house in the controversial Oljorai farm in Elementaita in ...

  • Kenyan shilling weakens on energy sector dollar orders

    View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A fuel attendant handles Kenyan shilling notes at a petrol station in the capital Nairobi March 15, 2011. REUTERS/Noor ...

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