Ken Kipruto

A gang of four got the shock of their lives on Sunday after their attempt to rob passengers in a matatu turned tragic, leading to the death of one of them The three gangsters had entered a matatu that plies the city centre – Lucky Summer route and begun stealing from the passengers. The passengers raised loud alarm which got the attention of police officers on patrol. A police report on the incident says police shot one suspect, while three others escaped on foot. Elsewhere, a police officer is fighting for his life in hospital after he was stabbed and seriously wounded in a robbery incident in Mathare. The officer in civilian clothes was walking to his house in Mathare, Depot area, on Sunday night when he was confronted by four men who were reportedly in a robbery spree. According to a police report, the officer resisted and was stabbed in the chest and stomach. The gang robbed him of unknown amount of money and other valuables and escaped on foot. No arrest...

Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has taken his war against illegal immigrant a notch higher by sharing a hotline number for Kenyans to report suspicious foreigners. Members of the public have been asked to report illegal immigrants through the  toll free number 0745-660-151. The Department of Immigration Services has in the last two clamped on illegal immigrants on orders by the Interior Secretary. The hotline was shared on the official Twitter handle of the Immigration Department on Monday, but there was no elaboration on what the public should look out for in identifying the illegal immigrants. Immigration Kenya. ✔ @ImmigrationDept Hotline for reporting Illegal Immigrants in the country; 0745-660-151 # AskImmigrationKE Cc. @ JBoinnet @ DCI_Kenya @ GKihalangwa @ FredMatiangi @ InteriorKE 8:03 AM - Aug 27, 2018 258 375 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy Those being targeted, acc...

A Supreme Court judge faces imminent arrest and prosecution for corruption in a devastating and dramatic escalation of the government’s campaign against graft. The arrest of such a high-ranking judicial staff, unprecedented in Kenya’s history, will be the culmination of weeks of investigations into brazen corruption at the Judiciary, and is likely to send shock waves throughout the institution. The Nation has followed this case for months after it learnt that the judge had been reported by the Kenya Revenue Authority to the Director of Public Prosecutions over the suspicious movement of large sums of money in and out of bank accounts. The Judiciary, supposed to be a citadel of virtue, seemed to have been spared in the current anti-corruption purge, which has mainly targeted the Executive wing of government and its parastatals. Sources told the Nation that investigations on the judge have mainly revolved around transactions involving the collapsed Imperial...

Feisty Ugandan legislator and musician Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine has been released on bail. His release comes just an hour after his wife, Barbie, penned a love letter to mark their seventh wedding anniversary. Bobi and 11 of his 32 co-accused were granted bail by the High Court in Gulu on Monday. Former FDC President Kizza Besigye, who attended Monday’s court session, said the happenings were “embarrassing” for the Ugandan government. Bobi’s wife Barbie had an hour before the release wished him a happy anniversary writing how proud she was despite spending their anniversary in the courtroom. MY LOVE She wrote, “Bobi my love, today is our seventh wedding anniversary. Unlike the other anniversaries in the past, this one finds us in a court room in Gulu. It finds you in clutches, unable to walk by yourself. It finds you before a judge, making an application for you to be released on bail so that you can go for medical treatment. It finds you in physical pain. On such...