The Star
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22 May 2013 - HOMA BAY Police have retrieved a body of a Standard Five pupil from a dam in Makongeni Estate. Hillary Ochieng, 12, a pupil at Homa Bay Primary School is said to have been swimming in the dam with friends when he drowned on Saturday afternoon. Deputy police boss...
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22 May 2013 - VIHIGA constituency parliamentary aspirants yesterday blamed electoral malpractices by the Independent electoral and boundary commission and his competitor over his failure to clinch the seat. Aspirants Ernest Ogesi Kivai who is also the complainant in case seeking to...
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22 May 2013 - EAST Africa Legislative Assembly member Joseph Kiangoi has faulted the plan by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission to reduce MP’s salaries. Kiangoi, a former MP and assistant minister backed MP’s fight for the increase of their salaries. “The SRC erred in...
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22 May 2013 - One more person was killed and another injured yesterday after armed militia attacked at Guba Village in Banisa constituency, Mandera county. Guba Village is about 15km from Banisa district headquarters. The attack has pushed the death toll to three and the injured to...
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22 May 2013 - Police have said they have made “tremendous progress” in their bid to apprehend those behind the killing of a senior AP officer on Saturday in Wajir town. Northeastern police boss Charlton Mureithi said they have arrested "key suspects" whom they are interrogating. He...
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22 May 2013 - A man yesterday denied being in possession of ivory in an Embu court. Peterson Mbogo was charged with being in possession of 12 elephants tusks at Mbuvore Shopping Centre in Embu North District last Saturday. Embu chief magistrate Margaret Wachira released him on...
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22 May 2013 - Police are still pursuing the two cars that were on hijacked on Monday by suspected al Shabaab militia while transporting miraa from Maua to Mandera. The cars were hijacked at Arabia area along the Mandera-Lafey-Fino road at 4.30 am. Mandera East police boss Jackson...
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22 May 2013 - Plans are underway to put up an international airport in Mandera town at a cost of Sh1 billion, the governor Ali Roba has said. He said the main purpose of the facility will be to enhance exportation of livestock products to the traditional markets in the Middle East...
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22 May 2013 - FOUR governors from Isiolo, Marsabit, Samburu and Tharaka-Nithi counties want the government to come up with a legislation to criminalise cattle rustling. The governors said cattle rustling can only be contained if the national government comes up with a policy to...
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22 May 2013 - Makueni deputy governor Adelina Mwau has faulted IEBC for not following election laws during the nominations of county representatives. Speaking to the Star in her Makueni office yesterday, Adelina said her Muungano party is not comfortable with some of the nominees...
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22 May 2013 - Charcoal sellers in Tana River county have asked the government to stop junior police officers and forest officials who extort money from them. Their spokesman Abdirahman Hussein yesterday said it has become “extremely difficult” to do businesses due to frustration...
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22 May 2013 - A man yesterday denied defiling and impregnating a mentally handicapped girl in an Embu court. Samuel Njeru, 30, was arrested at the weekend and yesterday charged with defiling a 16-year-old girl at Gatondo Village in Embu West district as she walked home from church...
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22 May 2013 - SEVERAL heads of departments in Isiolo were yesterday grilled by the county commissioner Wanyama Musiambo after the Commission on Administrative Justice discovered laxity and unresponsive behaviour among public servants in the area. Musiambo grilled the workers in his...
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22 May 2013 - THE Energy Regulatory Commission has ruled possibilities of closing down the Kenya Petroleum Refinery Limited plant in Changamwe, Mombasa arguing that its role remains key in the petroleum sector. Speaking yesterday during a petrol regulatory awareness workshop in...
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22 May 2013 - THE communications industry regulator wants pay television companies to air all local free-to-air channels without charging consumers. Communication Commission of Kenya director general Francis Wangusi said on Monday it will be applying a 'must carry' regulation that...
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22 May 2013 - CfC Stanbic yesterday said net profits for the three months of this year grew by 78 per cent to Sh1 billion as interest paid on customer deposits dropped by more than half. The bank, which posted Sh568 million over a similar period in 2012, said interest paid on...
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22 May 2013 - THE Central Bank sought to mop up Sh8 billion from the market yesterday through 14-, 21- and 28-day term auction deposits. The bank has actively soaked up liquidity since last year to support the shilling by making it slightly more expensive for banks to fund long...
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22 May 2013 - City Trust has announced that it has received all the necessary approvals from shareholders of I&M Bank to acquire the bank. City Trust has also received the required approvals from the Central Bank of Kenya as a non operating holding company of I&M Bank. "CTL...
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22 May 2013 - National Oil plans to play a bigger role in the oil and gas exploration and production through driving expertise in the field. The state oil dealer has started a series of talks intended to inform policy making and creation of institutional structures needed in sector...
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22 May 2013 - Newly appointed cabinet secretary for Sports, Culture and Arts Hassan Wario has called on sports federations to refrain from politics and instead concentrate on developing their respective disciplines. Wario said players/participants in all the sports in the country...
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22 May 2013 - The third round of KCB Advantage Banking Golf Tour tees off at the par 71 Muthaiga Golf Course today. The tour has so far seen stiff competition between the top pro-golfers in the country as they battle to earn points in the overall order of merit while winning prize...
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22 May 2013 - Harambee Stars coach Adel Amrouche has take issue with Ulinzi Stars and Gor Mahia for not releasing their players in time for training in readiness for next month’s World Cup qualification matches. He said the two clubs are yet to release their players for training...
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22 May 2013 - Real Insurance have increased the sponsorship for the Kenya Open tennis championships from Sh1.5 million to Sh2.3m for this year’s edition starting on Saturday at Nairobi Club. Prize money has also gone up from last year’s Sh800,000 to Sh1.2m. The 9-day tournament...
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22 May 2013 - Tusker will set the ball rolling in the 2013 Cecafa Kagame Cup tournament when they face Zanzibar side Super Falcons on June 18 in Kadugli . This will be the first Group ‘B’ match, according to the draws and fixtures announced yesterday ahead of the two-week show...
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22 May 2013 - Tusker FC coach Robert Matano has warned his non-performing players to either pull up their socks or perish following below-par showing in the ongoing Premier League. The champions are presently languishing at the 10th place after registering their third loss in 10...
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22 May 2013 - Over 30 teams including defending champions Kanbis have confirmed participation in this year’s Cutchi Leva six-a-side tournament set for June 1-2. . The event set to bring togther over 300 players across the city will be held at Shree Cutchi Leva Patel Samaj Complex...
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22 May 2013 - Kariobangi Sharks coach Bernard Kawinzi has admitted that they have no chance of getting promotion to the Kenya Premier League this season. He, however, wants his players to ensure they finish in the top five of the Nationwide Zone ‘A’ Group 2 in a bid to maintain...
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22 May 2013 - A total of 44 teams have confirmed participation for the Blackrock rugby schools festival slated for this Saturday at St. Marys School. Tournament organise, Greg Sang, said that 32 boys and 12 girls teams have entered the event. .For the first time, schools from...
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22 May 2013 - OLD Pirates suffered a shock 52-50 loss at the hands of Africa Nazarene University in an entertaining Nairobi Basketball Association (NBA) league tie at Railways Club. A driving lay up by Valentine Wachira separated the two sides. Coseiga Bayless led the “Wolfpacks”...
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22 May 2013 - Onkar Singh Rai and Baldev Singh Chager believe their crowd-pleasing and blindingly-fast Subaru machine will be the car to beat when the fourth round of the Kenya National Autocross Championship gets underway at Jamhuri racetrack his Sunday. Both Chager and Onkar will...