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20 Jun 2013 - The government has said it is prepared to investigate and prosecute President Uhuru and Deputy President William Ruto over the 2007-08 post-election violence if the ICC agrees to refer the cases back to Kenya. Attorney General Githu Muigai on Monday told the Justice...
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20 Jun 2013 - Some of Kenya’s envoys abroad have been recalled as President Uhuru prepares to replace some diplomats. At least 20 ambassadors, high commissioners and heads of consulates have been asked to hand over to their immediate juniors. Sources at the Foreign Affairs ministry...
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20 Jun 2013 - The Central Organisation of Trade Unions has dismissed reports that its secretary general Francis Atwoli diverted donor funds to politics in the run-up to the March 4 general election. While admitting there were attempts to defraud the organisation out of undisclosed...
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20 Jun 2013 - Scrap metal dealers yesterday collected pieces of metal from the Grogan garage after the mechanics were evicted on Tuesday. The metal dealers used street boys to access the area since it had been fenced off and surrounded by hundreds of riot officers. “Today is a good...
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20 Jun 2013 - A woman has admitted that she hired hitmen from the police flying squad to kill her husband in Zimmerman. Faith Wairimu Maina told senior principal magistrate Peter Ndwiga that she conspired to murder her husband John Muthee Guama. Prosecutor D Thuku said Maina and...
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20 Jun 2013 - ALBINOS have asked Parliament to create laws that will protect them. The Albinism Society of Kenya said they are Kenyans and not objects to be smuggled and sold by people performing rituals to acquire wealth. The society took a petition to the offices of the Inspector...
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20 Jun 2013 - A man who pleaded guilty to a charge of calling his grandfather a dog and shouting in his compound has been jailed for 3 years. Kelvin Kimani, 18, admitted before senior principal magistrate Martha Mutuku that on June 1 at Kiunyu in Gatanga, Murang’a county he called...
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19 Jun 2013 - Kirinyaga county commissioner Joseph Keter has threatened to sack his officers if they do not crack down on illicit brews and drugs in 90 days. He said the government will not condone complacency in provincial administrators. "Of late there have been very many cases...
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19 Jun 2013 - The ongoing heavy rains in Nyahururu and its environs have claimed one life. Residents of the town woke up yesterday and found the body of a middle aged man lying in a water trench along Nyahururu-Nakuru road. The man is believed to have drowned as he headed to his...
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19 Jun 2013 - The Uasin Gishu county government has been forced to hire extra offices to accommodate staff. Departments of the Eldoret Municipal Council have been relocated to the new offices hired at the 7th floor of the Kerio Valley Development Authority. The staff in the...
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19 Jun 2013 - Kapsabet will have a modern sports stadium to be constructed at a 25-acre plot at a cost of Sh250 million through the support of the International Olympics Committee. Nandi governor Cleophas Lagat said the facility is expected to replace the dilapidated Kipchoge Keino...
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19 Jun 2013 - Three suspects were shot dead and two others escaped with serious injuries yesterday morning at Tartar village in West Pokot county. West Pokot police boss Moses Owiti said they recovered an AK 47 gun with 20 bullets and a homemade gun from the suspects. Owiti said...
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19 Jun 2013 - Naivasha: Area DC Abass Hajji Mohammed has said the involvement of chiefs in the brewing of illegal drinks has made it difficult for the government to eradicate the vice. Mohammed said the most affected are Karagita, Kihoto, Nyakinyua, Mai Mahiu and Malewa.Speaking to...
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19 Jun 2013 - Naivasha: More than 20 workers at the local CDF office have been sent on forced leave following wrangles between the immediate former MP John Mututho and his successor John Kihagi. The move comes after Mututho failed to turn up for the handing ceremony of office on...
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19 Jun 2013 - Cabinet Secretaries Michael Kamau (Infrastructure) and Adan Muhammed (Industrialisation) yesterday made an extensive tour of Eldoret and parts of Western Kenya to asses infrastructure development and other projects aimed at improving trade in the region. They...
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19 Jun 2013 - More than 1000 farmers will benefit from a multibillion horticulture project by the Oserian Wildlife Sanctuary.The project will be a means to prevent the human-wildlife conflict in the area. The initiative will see farmers plant garlic, capsicum, pepper and onions as...
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19 Jun 2013 - Professor Teresia Akeng'a officially took over as the new Vice Chancellor at the University of Eldoret yesterday after the government directed that she be sworn in. Akeng'a went to the university accompanied by the council members who witnessed the handing over from...
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19 Jun 2013 - Two robbery suspects were arrested in Gilgil in a dramatic chase that saw police officers fire in the air to repulse a revenge crowd that wanted to lynch the duo. Sspected stolen property worth millions of shillings was recovered at Kikopey trading centre along the...
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19 Jun 2013 - Narok: Local leaders have asked the government to address the poor state of roads in the region. Led by Kilgoris CDF chairman Davis Dikirr, they claimed past regimes had marginalised the region in the distribution of national resources. Speaking to the Star in Narok...
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19 Jun 2013 - The Kenya Forest Service has won a Food and Agriculture Organisation award for its implementation of the sustainable livelihood development project in the Mau forest complex. The government through KFS and other state organs in 2008 stepped up the reclamation of Mau...
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19 Jun 2013 - KITALE: A suspected defiler has been released on a Sh200,000 bond with surety of a similar amount by a local court.Collins Wanjala was appeared before Chief Magistrate Maxwell Gicheru charged with committing the offence. The prosecution told the court on diverse dates...
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19 Jun 2013 - KAJIADO governor David Nkedianye yesterday moved to avert chaos at the Athi River Technology Development Centre where students barricaded roads and lit bonfires to protest the bad state of a bypass near their college. Nkedianye ordered the road closed and its repair...
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19 Jun 2013 - CHINESE investors will collaborate with the Kakamega county government to upgrade the Kakamega Provincial General Hospital to a referral status at a cost of Sh4 billion, governor Wycliffe Oparanya has said. Oparanya said his government has allocated Sh411 million...
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19 Jun 2013 - KISUMU residents have rejected the County’s budget proposal to purchase 22 Prados at Sh132 million and 14 Land Rovers at Sh98 million. Speaking to The Star yesterday in Kisumu, they cited a number of issues in the statement for the fiscal year 2013-2014 that need to...
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19 Jun 2013 - OVER two hundred TNA agents from Butula constituency in Busia County are planning to hold a demonstration over the delay by top party organs to pay them their dues for the role they played in the March 4 general elections. The irate party agents led by Ignatius Okello...
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19 Jun 2013 - Freedom struggle hero, the late Elijah Masinde's relatives now want the British government to compensate Bukusu freedom fighters' associated with Dini Ya Musambwa during the emergency declared by the colonial regime prior to Kenya's independence 50 years ago. Patrick...
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19 Jun 2013 - THE government should regulate sale of second hand books to stump out stealing of books in schools.Peter Magawe, the Migori Boys' High School deputy principal said yesterday that traders use students and teachers to steal school books. “We can ascertain that over 80...
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19 Jun 2013 - KISWAHILI teachers in Siaya county have been advised to change their teaching methods to improve academic performance. Kiswahili language specialist James Tsuma says most teachers use traditional teaching methods to guide students especially when teaching Fasihi....
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19 Jun 2013 - A man if fighting for his life at Ogwethi Hospital in Migori district after being slashed with a panga on the head after he was caught in bed with his aunt in her aunt's house. Denis Otieno Onsongo, a father of two,was beaten by his uncle at his uncle’s home in...
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19 Jun 2013 - REVENUE collection in Kisumu County has increased tremendously from Sh30 million to Sh53 million over the last two months.The County secretary Humphrey Nakitare said this has been achieved after re-strengthening the system of revenue collection. “There is increase in...