COURT & LEGAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
The Director of Public Prosecution has urged JKIA Magistrate Njeri Thuku not to recuse herself from Mathe Wa Ngara’s drug trafficking case saying she was within the law to deny them bail. In their response to an application by Nancy Kigunzu alias Mathe seeking for recusal of the magistrate, the DPP says that’s intimidation of […]
Nyamira nominated MCA Dolphin Nyangara may be forced to pay millions in costs for filing case at the court of appeal after losing her seat to advocate Michelle Omwoyo. The high court had upheld the decision of the magistrate court that nullified her nomination but she chose to move to the court of appeal even […]
Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KERRA) has suspended Daniel Wambua who was in the headlines last month for fundraising over 21 million to pay dowry for his fiancée. In a suspension letter dated September 12, KERRA wrote to Wambua informing him that they were suspending him pending outcome of his court case in which EACC have […]
Thousands of New Life Church members who had travelled for Pastor Ezekiel Odero’s mega crusade left stranded as police bar the preacher from overseeing the crusade. Police in Kilifi have stopped Odero’s much hyped evangelical crusade that was to be held in Kilifi. The crusade that had attracted thousands was to be held at the […]
A suspected ‘mchele babe’ was arraigned before a Kibera court and charged with stupefying a senior director of a five star hotel and stealing valuables worth over Sh 1.6 million from him. It is alleged that Jackline Wanja Nyaga on September 5 in Langata within Nairobi County jointly with others not before court conspired to […]
Youth leader Kefa Moenga has challenged the participation of Dickson Machungo Mogaka, Dolphine Nyang’ara Onkoba, and Nyaribo Dennis Kebaso in the impeachment of Governor Amos Nyaribo saying they are not MCA’s. In a petition to the Speaker of the assembly, Moenga says he is concerned that there are members in the County Assembly whose nomination […]
A Kibra woman who stabbed her neighbour twice leading to her death was charged before a Milimani court with manslaughter. Elizabeth Akinyi Otieno was arraigned before magistrate Benmark Ekhubi and denied the offence of manslaughter. It was alleged that on August 27 at Katwekera area in Kibra she unlawfully killed her neighbour Maureen Nyarindi. According […]
A 16-year-old girl who was arrested yesterday for being the main suspect in Nairobi Hospital Finance director Eric Maigo’s death has been detained for three weeks. Senior Resident Magistrate Zainab Abdul allowed for the police to detain the minor who allegedly sat for her KCPE last year for three weeks for them to complete investigations. […]
Mathe Wa Ngara who was charged last month for drug trafficking has now written a complaint to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) against the JKIA magistrate who handled her case. Nancy Kigunzu alias Mathe Wa Ngara and her son who she claims is a minor have jointly written to the JSC complaining against the conduct […]
