COURT & LEGAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
The defamation case against Majority Leader Kimani Ichung’wah has been adjourned to next year March 18. In the case, city Lawyer Danstan Omari has sued the legislator seeking 11 million in damages for tweeting that he frequents the infamous Koinange street. The case was coming up for pre-trial but magistrate Caroline Kemei was not sitting. […]
A man who was charged with robbing two people off their phones and valuables has been sentenced to 45 years in jail. Joseph Chege was found guilty by a Kibera court and sentenced to 45 years imprisonment Principal Magistrate Renee Kitagwa found him guilty of the offense after listening to five witnesses who testified in […]
A truck who pleaded guilty to causing the death of a retired senior city hall official in a road accident has been jailed for nine months. John Njuguna pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine months in jail or pay an alternative fine of Sh 50,000. Njuguna pleaded guilty to the charge of causing death […]
An Estonian tech firm SMTM now wants to be enjoined in Sh 400 million case tells court that they are the real owners of the money being claimed by shrewed businessman Kirimi Koome. In an affidavit by CEO Dmitri Orlov, SMTM says they are the custodians of the money on behalf of merchants after entering […]
A spirited activist has moved to court seeking to suspend the directive issued last week by Head of Public Service Felix Koskei suspending 67 police officers on allegations of corruption. Through Lawyer Danstan Omari, Memba Ocharo argues that the directions issued by EACC to IG were malicious and also illegal. He argues that in a […]
Eight suspects who were arrested early this week for allegedly defrauding foreigners trillions of dollars were on Friday charged with several counts of fraud. Peter Kisanya Modaya, Noah Othiambo Ouma, Peter Mikisi Aura, Kayombo Jean Karenga, Brian Waweru Njoroge, Moses Otieno Oduor, Mercy Cheptoo and Charity Njeri Gachuhi were charged conspiring to defraud Omid Kharkhaneh […]
The National Assembly has summoned businesswoman Ann Njoroge who is at the centre of the Sh 17 B oil cargo dispute. In a letter to Njoroge, the National Assembly through clerk Jeremiah Ndombi has summoned Njoroge to appear before MPs on November 22. The letter says she has been summoned for a meeting to shed […]
Late Olympic champion Agnes Tirop’s husband has been released on bail two years after she was stabbed to death in her house. Ibrahim Rotich was charged with her murder and has been in custody since 2021 after the then judge denied him bail ruling that he was a flight risk and for his own safety. […]
Former Lamu senator Anwar Loitiptip was on Thursday charged before a Milimani law court with fraud overa Sh 6 million car sale agreement that he was involved in. Anwar was charged with three counts of obtaining money by false pretense, forgery and uttering of a false document. It is alleged that on August 3 last […]
