Category: Society
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The KRA enforcement teams have intercepted a consignment of undeclared 21,600 units of high-end smart phones worth Ksh.16,102,137 in tax at the Eldoret International Airport. Through a notice by the commissioner investigations and enforcement, the consignment was part of consolidated the items that include 5000 declared units of smartphone worth Ksh.6.4 million, shoes, clothes, auto…
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Water vendors along Outering Road, Nairobi. [Photo/Courtesy] Residents of Nairobi’s Eastlands area of Umoja, Tassia, Kayole, Komarock, Dandora, Kariobandi, Huruma and Donholm are raising concern over biting water shortage that has left many households thirsty. According to the residents, clean water is a very scarce commodity in Eastlands. Many in the estate believe the shortage…
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Energy CS Opiyo Wandayi during the commissioning of the Lukenya Extension and Katani Pearl Drive Electrification project. PHOTO | File Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi says the government is committed to a allocating more resources to increase connect more homes to the national grid through the Last Mile Connectivity Program (LMCP). Wandayi reaffirmed…
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A boat accident on Lake Kyoga in Amolatar District has claimed the lives of seven people after their vessel capsized near Kiryanga Village in Acii Sub-county. According to the territorial maritime police in Amolatar, the incident occurred at around 11:00 a.m. on Friday when the boat, carrying 36 passengers, struck a stationary tree stump about…
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A trailer driver was murdered on Friday night by unknown assailants along the Kabale–Mbarara highway in Rukiga District, western Uganda, in an attack that also saw the theft of 50 bags of rice. The victim, identified as 48-year-old Bernard Katabazi from Rubirizi District, was transporting a consignment of 35 tonnes of rice from Rwanda to…
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A police officer was seriously injured in a hit and run accident along Uhuru Highway, Nairobi. The accident happened at the junction of Parliament Road and Uhuru Highway, police said. The police officer attached to Parliament police station was crossing the road on Friday morning when a speeding salon car hit him. The car was…
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FILE IMAGE OF A POLICE LINE A mob confronted and killed a man after he had murdered his father in a domestic feud in a village in Nyamache, Kisii County. The incident happened in Emanwa location on Saturday September 20, 2025. Police and villagers said one Enock Obwaya, 32, had attacked and killed his father…
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File Image of a Police Car A 35-year-old man died after he was assaulted in an altercation with another man in a village in Ndhiwa, Homabay County. The assailant escaped the Kopiyo village after learning Stephen Ochieng Genga had succumbed to the injuries. This followed an altercation between the assailant and the deceased. Police said…
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police line A 22-year-old woman was found murdered and her body abandoned in her house in Narok Town. The motive of the murder which happened on Saturday September 20, 2025 in the Majengo area was not immediately known. The woman was identified as Maureen Wairimu Ngare. Her body was found lying in a pool of…
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FILE IMAGE OF A POLICE LINE Detectives are investigating an incident where a bodaboda rider dropped a body of a man and escaped from a hospital in Kamulu area, Nairobi. The rider with another man rode to Afya Precise Hospital in the Ruai area and dropped the man saying he needed immediate attention. The incident…