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The Government, through a notice by the Sacco Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA) has unveiled a new list of 359 Savings and Credit Cooperatives Societies ( Saccos ) licensed and authorized in the country. SASRA said the companies have met the requirements and have since had their licenses renewed to undertake their business. Out of this, 176 operate deposit-taking while 183 others are authorized to carry out non-deposit business. Deposit-taking Saccos are 2NK, Acumen, Afya, Edus, Kenya highlands, Boresha and Defense Sacco societies, among others. Non-deposit taking- Rembo shuttle, Post bank, The Standard, Ukaguzi, Ubora, Unga and Vision regulated non-WDT Saccos. SASRA chief executive officer Peter Njuguna has put on notice individuals operating any Sacco without their approval that is an offence and they risk prosecution. Also Read:  Government Communication Officers Re-deployed between Ministries “It is an offence punishable by prosecution under the Act and the regu...

Many people have lists of celebs they would love to meet and hang out with, maybe down a drink or two, or just pick their brains on various topics.  When this opportunity arises, the brain often shuts down and goes into a fan love frenzy where screaming, shock, adoration, and possibly lust compete for the driver’s seat.  Such an instance probably happened when one lass met Bien Aime, one-fourth of the famed Kenyan boy band Sauti Sol, at an event where he was set to perform, and she went into overdrive.  From behind him, the lass ground and twerked on him as he faced the stage, seeming about to go up and perform before she began dancing on him. While this fan was having the time of her life- and Bien was laughing and smiling indulgently before he moved a step forward, his girlfriend, Chiki, would have none of it.  Also read: That one-time Bien-Aimes’ mum dissed Nameless   In the same video, Chiki could be seen walking towards the duo and chasing the girl away w...

Detectives based at Kasarani arrested three suspects who were found in possession of stolen goods in Githurai 44. Francis Itaru, Joel Njoroge and John Warui were arrested at night on Monday, January 31 following a tip-off to officers from the Kasarani police station . According to a statement by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), police were on patrol in Githurai 44 when they were informed of the three persons who were driving around the area in two vehicles while behaving suspiciously. Also Read:   Many Kenyans have embraced Vigilante Cops – an ineffective Police Force is to Blame “Detectives who were on patrol within Kasarani had received information regarding two vehicles that were ferrying the goods for sale in Githurai 44 and arrested the thugs as they attempted to sell them to traders dealing with electronics,” the statement by DCI read in part. The trio was found selling the items to electronic vendors and an immediate search was conducted in their car...

Liberian President and former international football star George Weah announced Monday that he would run for a second term in October, rejecting mounting criticism that he is out of touch with a population facing steep price rises and food shortages. “My fellow citizens, I will be coming to you shortly to ask you to renew… for a second time the mandate that you gave me six years ago,” Weah said in his annual State of the Nation address. Weah pledged “a mandate of opportunity, a mandate for transformation, a mandate for development”. He also defended his first term, saying: “Let me assure you that the state of our nation is strong. The state of our nation is stable… The state of our nation is peaceful and secure. We intend to keep it this way.” The election is slated for October 10 in the West African country, which is still recovering from back-to-back civil wars between 1989 and 2003 that killed some 250,000 people. It was also ravaged by an Ebola pandemic and the nation of fi...

Investigations into a string of beheadings in southern Mali that have shocked the Sahel nation have scored a breakthrough, judicial and police sources said on Monday. Ten people in the cotton-growing town of Fana have been decapitated since 2018, sparking fears of ritual killings. “We have arrested the main suspect,” local prosecutor Boubacar Moussa Diarra told AFP by phone. He is a 42-year-old unemployed Malian man with no fixed address, he said. “The details he gave of the crimes correspond to the nature of the murders,” he said. Also Read:  Mali Gets More Warplanes, Helicopters from Russia A police official who declined to be named revealed the suspect had been arrested a year ago but had only confessed last week to the grisly murders. Neither the prosecutor nor the police official revealed the possible motive for the crimes. The victims included a former soldier, a housewife, a five-year-old albino child and a two-year-old girl, and had apparently nothing in common. ...

Brooke East Africa, a group that deals with donkey rights has expressed concern over the dwindling number of donkeys in the country. Brooke East Africa works in 22 counties within Kenya, Somaliland, South Sudan, Tanzania and part of Northern Uganda, through a strategic partnership model engagement.  According Raphael Kinoti, the regional director of Brooke East Africa , Kenya may not have a single donkey by 2024 if the slaughter of the animal continues. “Our donkeys are being slaughtered daily. This thing is happening in silence and no one seems to care. We are urging our government to take care charge and protect this animal. It supports millions of hustlers,” Kinoti said. Also Read:  Farmers Urged to Embrace Use of Donkey Waste for Pest Control “Donkeys in Kenya are kept for work and not for slaughter: if we slaughter donkeys for their skins, livelihoods are lost,” Kinoti added. According to the 2019 Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO...

Three ex-police officers and a police informer accused of playing a role in the murder of Lawyer Willie Kimani and two other men are scheduled for sentencing on Friday, February 3, 2023. The sentencing of the four, namely ex-police officers; Mr Fredrick Leliman, Mr Stephen Cheburet, Ms Sylvia Wanjiku and police informer Peter Ngugi has been postponed twice. Initially, it was set to happen on December 16, 2022. Also read: Murder most foul: Slain Nyamira teacher's horrifying last moments However, Justice Jessie Lessit, on July 22, 2022, ruled that the evidence provided in court against the four was overwhelming. “I am satisfied that the prosecution established beyond reasonable doubt that the accused were principal offenders and acted in one common intention to commit the offences as charged,” she said while finding the accused guilty of murder. The bodies of the three men -  lawyer Willie Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda and driver Joseph Muiruri - were found stashed in gunny b...

The reasons began streaming in after a curious Kenyan on Twitter named Omwamba KE wondered where Muslims got their money from and why many of them are “are so rich”. Many Kenyans on Twitter (KOT) streamed to Omwamba’s comment section where they gave their opinions on why many Muslims were doing well financially: “Praying five times a day and practicing patience when tested. That’s where we get our wealth,” said Gamal Jamil. “They work smart,” added Lawrence Kitema. Also read: The rise and quick fall of trending KOT rapper, Lil Mbwa “Oh, you know, just from all the oil under our prayer mats,” joked Naaman Kala. “I am not gonna lie it's bc of prayers and tissue saving blah blah. While prayers with action may help but I attribute it largely to the Islamic business principles like Interest free no gambling ,no hoarding of goods, being honest when you sell and more,” explained Abdullar Athman. “Muslims are very hardworking people. They also have five daily prayers in their account ev...

The National Assembly is  holding  a four-day Post Election Seminar (PES) for its members. The seminar is being held in conjunction with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA). President William Ruto is set to officially open the event and make a keynote address. The event which as per practice within the Commonwealth fraternity takes place at the beginning of the term of every Parliament. It comes hot on the heels of a week-long House Committees’ Induction workshop which ended on Sunday in Mombasa. The main purpose of the workshop was to give Members of various Committees the tools that they need to discharge their Constitutional mandate of representation, oversight, and legislation. “The PES will be key in enhancing the capacity of Members of the National Assembly to efficiently and effectively perform their constitutional mandate; strengthening Members’ understanding of parliamentary practices, procedures and processes while developing a better understa...

Kenya’s last execution of a prisoner was in 1987. But the country still hosts a death row population of nearly 600. Almost all were sentenced to death for murder or robbery with violence. New sentences are handed down every year. Kenya is an “abolitionist de facto” state: the death penalty is still present in law and people are sentenced to death, but they aren’t executed. Currently, 17 of the African Union’s 54 member states are abolitionist de facto – they haven’t carried out an execution of a prisoner for at least 10 years. Just 11 are fully retentionist, meaning that they sentence people to death and have carried out executions. Advocates for the death penalty will often argue that it deters potential offenders from committing serious crime – even when a country has not executed anyone for years. But our recent research , Living with a Death Sentence in Kenya: Prisoners’ Experiences of Crime, Punishment and Death Row, suggests this isn’t true. We spoke to 671 inmates who h...

Nairobi county government has stated that it will dispose of 292 uncaimed bodies lying at city mortuary. Through an advert published in the dailies on Friday, Nairobi County Secretary and Head of Public Service Jairus Musumba said the bodies will be disposed of in a week’s time. City Mortuary has 214 unclaimed bodies, Mbagathi hospital mortuary has 50 and Mama Lucy hospital mortuary has 28. Also Read:   Man Stabs Brother to Death in Dandora The public has been asked to identify and collect the bodies in the three mortuaries before seven days elapse. The move has stirred a debate in the country because some of the bodies are of people suspected to have died by suicide. There is concern that family members of the people who died by suicide may not be aware that their kin is dead. Other causes of death listed by the county government in the notice include road accidents, murder, sudden deaths, natural deaths and mob justice. The county published some names of the dead peop...

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has reported a more than tenfold increase in the number of webpages depicting young children carrying out sexual acts on camera since the pandemic lockdowns began in early 2020. The charity reported that it logged over 63,000 webpages containing such material last year, compared to 5,000 before the pandemic. IWF Chief Executive Susie Hargreaves said, “During the pandemic, the internet was a lifeline but we are only now unpacking the full effects. What is clear to us is that younger children are being pulled into abusive situations by rapacious predators, often while they are in their own bedrooms.” The IWF, which is a UK-based organization, tracks, investigates, and attempts to remove incidents of child sexual abuse material from around the internet worldwide. The charity states that it is confident that the rise in self-generated material it is seeing is due to an increase in activity, as reporting levels have remained relatively similar in r...

A man in Mwingi town, Kitui County, reportedly took his own life after his wife left him. Mr Joshua Tungu, a middle-aged boda boda operator died by suicide following a heated disagreement with his wife of three years. Area residents said Mr Tungu took his life by hanging himself using a rope inside a rented house within the town. His body was discovered hanging from the roof top of the house by a neighbor.  Also read:   How three-year-old died in Kibera night fire after mother went out   “I was in my house when I heard a commotion in his house, when I tried to check what was happening I saw him hanging from the rooftop,” said Mr Maluki. It is then that he made a decision to alert neighbors on what was transpiring. The neighbor said he was disturbed by the sounds that were emanating from the house in which the deceased lived with the wife.  Neighbors told the media that the deceased was always friendly and he engaged well with his neighbors. They said that he rarely ...

Controversial social media influencer and media personality Andrew Kibe has asked former Kiss 100 presenter Kamene Goro to get married. Kibe, who is Kamene's one-time co-presenter at Kiss 100, on Friday also branded Kamene "lazy".  According to Kibe, Kamene is downright lazy and it would be very hard for her to work elsewhere following her exit from Kiss 100. " Kalazy laziness, huyu anawezakuja huku nje afanye nini? Hii game haitaki uzembe, consistency ama sasa tu uolewe (What can such a lazy person do out here? There is no place in this game for lazy people. She is better off getting married)," Kibe said on his YouTube channel.  Also read: Sacked? Kamene Goro clears the air At the same, he also joked that news of Kamene being fired was giving him blood pressure and hypertension. “There is an article out that is speaking on why Kamene is leaving Kiss 100. She could make calls to the office and say she was not feeling well but when one takes a look at her pho...

A newly released report has ranked Kenya as the 13th best-governed country in Africa according to a report released by The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG). The report, compiled in conjunction with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF), defines governance as the provision of the political, social, economic, and environmental goods and services that every citizen has the right to expect from their State, and that a State has the responsibility to deliver to its citizens. The report provides an annual assessment of the quality of governance in African countries. According to the report, Kenya has shown an absolute change in its good governance score since the last analysis conducted in 2012  ranked Kenya at position 17th. The survey constitutes a framework for citizens, governments, institutions, academics and businesses to assess the delivery of public goods and services, and policy outcomes, across Africa.  Also Read: Kenya Eyes Sh3.1Bn Deals During 6th Edition o...

Serviced office space provider, Workstyle Africa , has partnered with  SNDBX International , a business growth ecosystem, to open five one-stop-shop entrepreneurship centres and workspaces in East Africa. Workstyle Africa builds and manages beautifully designed, high end, flexible workspaces at competitive pricing, while enabling companies to manage new hybrid-work models and enhancing their employees’ work environment. This partnership is aimed at giving entrepreneurs and SMEs within these spaces timely and personalised access to round the clock business experts to support their growth. “Each Workstyle location with a SNDBX wing will have more than 20 resident business support experts including finance, human resources, tax, legal, branding, marketing, debt management, innovation, governance and risk management among others, which will enhance our flexible office space value proposition as we expand across East Africa and beyond. The initial investment will be over Sh250 mill...

The Supreme Court has ordered the government to award Sh17.5 million to seven women victimized by the Moi regime as compensation. The seven women who were brutalized during the 1992 protest at Uhuru Park are to receive Sh2.5 million each after a successful appeal against a case dismissed by the High Court in 2018. “The Government of Kenya shall pay damages assessed at Sh2,500,000.00/- to each of the appellants in this consolidated appeal,” a judgement released on Friday, January 27 reads in part. While granting the appeal against a 2019 Court of Appeal decision sustaining the verdict of the High Court, the Supreme Court overruled a finding that the women exceedingly delayed filing the suit. Moreover, the apex court held that given the historical context under which their rights were violated, the women had a valid claim even though there was delay in filing the case. “The appellants’ explanation for the delay in filing their petitions in the High Court is plausible to the exten...