News Tracker

Sat, 25 June 2022

Fri, 24 June 2022

  • 7:45 pm Kevin Mbuvi Kioko alias Bahati expresses confidence that he will beat his competitors in the Mathare Parliamentary race on August 9.
  • 7:19 pm Africog's Gladwell Otieno says IEBC has never produced a credible register, notes there were unexplained differences between electronic & hard copy registers in 2013 & 2017.
  • 7:05 pm Jubilee Vice Chair, David Murathe, says President Uhuru Kenyatta would have sacked DP William Ruto were it not for the security of tenure.
  • 6:45 pm Two women charged with assaulting a fellow woman for allegedly supporting two Nairobi candidates vying on different parties in the August 9 polls.
  • 6:26 pm Machakos County Assembly Speaker, Florence Muoti Mwangangi, appointed Chama Cha Uzalendo deputy party leader.
  • 6:07 pm DP William Ruto says the August 9 presidential race is not a beauty contest, asks the people of Voi to vote for candidates based on their track records.
  • 5:38 pm Between April and early June, Raila Odinga received 61 per cent of all the media coverage in the country against DP William Ruto's 38 per cent.
  • 5:09 pm Nairobi gubernatorial candidate, Agnes Kagure, says her administration will ease doing business in the city through harmonization of permits and licences.
  • 4:48 pm High Court declines a request by EACC to bar 241 aspirants facing integrity probes from contesting in the August 9 polls.
  • 4:14 pm Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit warns IEBC against dropping the manual voters register, says it is an important backup.
  • 3:53 pm Jubilee Vice Chair, David Murathe, says the so called deep state is the National Security Committee that DP William Ruto chairs when the President is away.
  • 3:28 pm Azimio La Umoja led by Raila Odinga resolves to drop some candidates ahead of the August 9 polls in a strategy to have more numbers in Parliament.
  • 3:02 pm Media Council of Kenya puts vernacular radio stations on the spot over unfair coverage of presidential candidates.
  • 2:43 pm Garissa Township MP, Aden Duale, wants thorough investigations into recent inferno that razed down Garissa market, says it could be political.
  • 2:20 pm Roots Party presidential candidate, George Luchiri Wajackoyah, appoints Omar Lali as the National Coordinator of Beach Boys
  • 1:41 pm High Court says it has no jurisdiction to determine whether Mike Sonko and Karungo Thang'wa are eligible to stand for election in August.
  • 1:18 pm High Court suspends decision of IEBC not to have a physical voter register as a complimentary system in the event technology fails on August 9 when Kenyans go to the ballot.
  • 1:00 pm Raila Odinga chairing Azimio One Kenya Coalition Party council meeting at KICC, members deliberating August 9 poll winning strategy.
  • 12:26 pm Safina's Jimi Wanjigi files petition at High Court challenging the decision of IEBC chair, Wafula Chebukati, to bar him from contesting for the presidency in August.
  • 12:05 pm Jubilee Nairobi gubernatorial candidate, Polycarp Igathe, says cartels must be dismantled if City Hall is to operate efficiently and deliver on its mandate.
  • 11:24 am 15 counties considered as battlegrounds have more than 6.6 million votes, to determine the winner between DP William Ruto and Raila Odinga.
  • 11:05 am Gloria Orwoba, a public policy analyst, says models Kenyans used to determine who would win an election in the past have since changed, adds it is no longer about tribal politics.
  • 10:34 am IEBC Disputes Resolution Committee nullifies Homa Bay County Assembly Majority Leader Oscar Abote’s clearance to contest for South Kabuoch MCA seat on an ODM ticket.
  • 10:05 am An NGO and two residents of Kilifi file petition seeking to bar Malindi MP, Aisha Jumwa, from vying for the governor’s seat over alleged lack of a university degree.
  • 9:30 am IEBC completes Election Security Arrangement Project (ESAP) national training of trainers, exercises conducted in conjunction with state security agencies.
  • 9:08 am Kalonzo Musyoka says Wiper party will seek High Court's intervention after IEBC barred Mike Sonko from contesting for the Mombasa gubernatorial seat.
  • 8:40 am Azimio la Umoja Council to meet today and discuss the strategy to counter DP William Ruto's popularity in Mount Kenya, parts of Eastern, Coast and Western Kenya.