The Star
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13 Jun 2013 - KITALE: Kitale deputy police boss Duncan Nguthu has said two guns and 150 rounds of ammunition recovered from three criminal suspects killed at Kiminini recently came from Uganda. Addressing mourners at Kamukuywa during the burial ceremony of a security officer,...
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13 Jun 2013 - The hearing of an election petition against Narok East MP Lemanken Aramat will start on June 18.Judge Anyara Emukule who was expected to hear an application by Aramat’s rival Harun Lempaka postponed the hearing after he was told Lempaka’s lawyer Kibe Mungai was away....
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13 Jun 2013 - Former Forestry minister Noah Wekesa has asked Trans Nzoia farmers to venture into tree and cane planting.Wekesa said maize planting has become costly due to high cost of production. “Fertiliser for maize planting and top dressing has been always late while inputs...
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13 Jun 2013 - A voter challenging the election of Bungoma county women's representative Reginalda Wanyonyi has dropped the poll petition and wants Ford-Kenya party leader Moses Wetang’ula to pay the cost of the case. Retired major Godfrey Masaba told High Court judge Hellen Omondi...
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13 Jun 2013 - THE Abagusii Council of Elders yesterday demanded for an apology from the British government over the torture their community members was subjected to by the colonialists Council chairman James Matundura in a press release said it was wrong for British to apologise to...
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13 Jun 2013 - A journalist based in Bungoma is recuperating at Webuye District Hospital with serious injuries after he was attacked by four armed thugs. Godfrey Wamalwa of African Press International was attacked at 10pm on Monday at their rural home in Webuye.The journalist...
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13 Jun 2013 - BODA boda operators in Malaba took to the streets yesterday to protest against police harassment. Operations along the Northern Corridor were paralysed as the operators drove for more than 6 kilometres to petition Teso North DC, Josephine Onunga in Amagoro over their...
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13 Jun 2013 - A foetus believed to be six-month old was on Tuesday evening found dumped outside the DC offices in Amukura, Teso South.Amukura DO Sylvester Barasa said the foetus was discovered by a resident at 6.30pm wrapped in a shawl and placed at the DO's office doorstep. A...
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13 Jun 2013 - DOCTORS in Migori County have refuted reports that the de-worming exercise targeting school going children is a threat to their lives. They said this after parents claimed several children developed health complications such as stomach problems while others died after...
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13 Jun 2013 - ILLEGAL cultural practices, poverty and unemployment are the main causes of HIV/Aids on the shores of Lake Victoria. Director of Kenya Voluntary and Community Development Project Jackline Ouko yesterday said despite persistent sensitisation of the communities,...
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13 Jun 2013 - POLICE in Nyatike District have arrested three men for defiling three minors.The suspects include a 65 years-old man.Nyatike police boss Richard Bitonga confirmed the arrest and said the girls are aged between 12 and 15. He said the children were going to school when...
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13 Jun 2013 - BONDO Community Water and Sanitation has formed a sacco that aims at increasing the number of latrines in the town. BOCOWASA vice chairperson, Catherine Akinyi yesterday said they have worked with UN-Habitat and Sana International with to improve sanitation in Bondo....
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13 Jun 2013 - A petition challenging the election of Mary Otara as Kisii women's representative will go to full trial after the High Court allowed an application by two voters to replace the original petitioner. Justice Ruth Sitati allowed Evans Nyambaso Zedekiah and Mabutu...
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13 Jun 2013 - KISII County governor James Ongwae yesterday asked key players in education to stop engaging in clan politics which negatively affect education Ongwae urged them to work together to improve the deteriorating education standards in the county. He was accompanied by his...
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13 Jun 2013 - A witness in Bungoma in the election petition filed by former nominated MP Musikari Kombo against Senator Moses Wetangula yesterday told the High Court that he was denied his right to vote on March 4. Saul Simiyu told Justice Francis Gikonyo that he was given a marked...
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13 Jun 2013 - A secondary school teacher in Siaya county beat his wife on Sunday after she prepared a meal that he did not like. The man allegedly bought chicken for supper but when he got home he found that his wife was still in a church. He left the the chicken with his two...
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13 Jun 2013 - Parents of Raga Primary School in Karungu Division, Nyatike held a demo to demand the transfer of the head teacher Baa Magawi and Migori Knut vice chairman. On Tuesday the demonstrators carrying twigs, placards and chanting songs against Magawi and Migori Knut Vice...
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13 Jun 2013 - TWENTY families headed by children in Nyando district will be given support by the government. The children will be given bedding, utensils and sanitary pads. Nyando district children officer Jermine K'onyango said the families who were hard hit by recent floods are...
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13 Jun 2013 - SUGAR cane farmers in Kisumu county have been advised to adopt new variety of cane that mature after short period. George Otieno, Extension officer in Chemelil yesterday said this will increase the crushing capacity in theregion. Speaking to the Star on the phone, he...
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13 Jun 2013 - TWENTY three Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission officials in Makadara constituency may be prosecuted for taking part in an election offence. The officers who were stationed Kaloleni Primary School during the March 4 election are being investigated by the...
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13 Jun 2013 - In a cost cutting measure, Treasury has opted to hire cars for government use instead of buying. Treasury has picked the National Police Service for a pilot phase stating it will hire approximately 1,200 cars of different models. The cars will include saloon cars,...
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13 Jun 2013 - The effects of shutting down the media center has now dawned on MPs who are now finding it difficult to be covered by the media in the Parliament precincts. With the press not allowed into the facility, the MPs have been forced to look for alternative venues to...
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13 Jun 2013 - KETHI Kilonzo, daughter of former Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo, was yesterday under pressure to re-enter the race to succeed her father after her stepmother Cyrose Nduku pulled out.Sources said Kethi had re-entered the race and it is only a matter of time before she...
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12 Jun 2013 - One person died while two others are admitted at a hospital in Mwea after consuming beer on Saturday night.Benson Wachira died while two of his friends are receiving treatment at Comrade Nursing Home in Ngurubani town. Area Police boss Apollo Onyonyi said the three...
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12 Jun 2013 - Two in-laws yesterday denied violently robbing a woman of Sh20,000, a mobile phone and an ID card. Armed with crude weapons, Mercy Nyawira, 27 and Gladys Nyawira, 36, robbed Joyce Nyawira last Friday at Kagumo market. Kerugoya magistrate Kenneth Cheruiyot released...
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12 Jun 2013 - Students at Thika Technical Training Institute in Kiambu county went on rampage on Monday night.The students looted an M-Pesa outlet, a kiosk and destroyed their academic square. They pulled down the institution's main gate, burnt down a soft drinks refrigerator and...
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12 Jun 2013 - Supporters of Laikipia North MP Matthew Lempurkel yesterday celebrated the dismissal of a petition challenging the legislator's election. Justice James Wakiaga dismissed the petition after petitioner Richard Nchapi Leiyagu , who lost in the Laikipia North...
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12 Jun 2013 - Thugs stole computers worth Sh150,000 from a secondary school in Mwea on Monday morning. Good Samaritan principal Charles Wanderi said the thugs broke into the accountant's and his office before tealing the nine units from the computer laboratory. The thieves stole 2...
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12 Jun 2013 - A Member of Parliament and Teachers unions have reacted angrily over the interdiction of a leading high school principal in Nandi county after she allegedly defied a move to transfer her. Tinderet MP Julius Meli, 4 Kenya National Union of Teachers and Kenya Union of...
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12 Jun 2013 - COUNTY assembly speakers have expressed satisfaction with the way devolution operations have taken off in the county governments. However the speakers led by Isaac Terer of Uasin Gishu want the government to rectify hitches that have been slowing down the release of...