Category: Society
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A NACADA-led multi-agency team dismantled a major illicit brewing network in Kisumu on Tuesday, destroying more than 40,000 litres of illegal alcohol and arresting two suspects. The operation in Pap Onditi, Bolo, involved the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA), National Government Administration Officers, and a specialised Administration Police unit.…
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Maryann Githongo and Diana Otieno in the dock at the Makadara law courts. Two women who publicly fought for a man they shared got a reprieve after a city magistrate released them with a warning not to commit the offence again. Maryann Githongo, 3, and 25-year-old Diana Otieno fought on August 25, 2025, in Kariobangi…
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Three of the four adult suspects in the dock at the Makadara law courts. Six youngsters suspected to be members of teenage gangs terrorizing residents of Eastlands, Nairobi are facing charges of robbery with violence after raiding a woman’s house in Njiru, Nairobi where they chased her away with her family before looting everything. They…
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A 36-year-old man died after he jumped off from the sixth floor of a building in South C, Nairobi, witnesses and police said. Police said Abdirizak Abdirahman sustained head injuries after landing on the ground floor of the apartment on the September 1, 2025, at about 1pm. The motive of the incident was not immediately…
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Maureen Njeri Mahihu in the dock at the Makadara Law Courts A 25-year-old woman who unknowingly helped a fraudster use her phone to execute a con scheme is in trouble after the phone was used to receive cash from a Community-Based Organisation official who was being conned. Ronald Omondi Otieno was defrauded of Sh132,184 in…
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Police in Nyandarua have arrested a man suspected of killing his wife and their three-year-old daughter in Kinangop. The suspect was intercepted on Monday while travelling in a matatu towards Nairobi at Lari, Kiambu County, just hours after the bodies of his wife, Mary Wanjiru Njogu, 27, and their daughter, Peris Wanjiru, were discovered inside…
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Police in Nairobi have arrested 214 suspects linked to various crimes within the Central Business District (CBD). The suspects are being processed and will be arraigned in court. Nairobi County Police Commander George Seda noted that criminal activity is not confined to the streets but is also spreading online. He cautioned TikTok content creators against…
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Female police officers in Kenya will, for the first time, receive maternity uniforms as part of a planned overhaul of the National Police Service. Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen said on Thursday, August 4, the change will address a long-standing gap in the service’s uniform policy. “I have instructed Inspector General Douglas Kanja and Deputy…
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Former MCA aspirant for Kirimari Ward, Embu Swaleh Abdalla. (Photo: Courtesy) Residents of Embu County were left stunned on Tuesday after a former MCA aspirant, Swaleh Abdalla, was shot dead by police while attempting a dramatic escape from custody. The incident, which unfolded minutes after a court appearance, involved pepper-spraying prison officers, a shootout on…
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A detective at the crime scene. (Photo: Courtesy) A love triangle involving two police officers turned fatal in Kitengela, Kajiado County, on Tuesday after one of the parties—a junior officer—allegedly fell to his death during a confrontation with his senior at their shared girlfriend’s apartment. The incident, which unfolded in the early hours of Tuesday…