News Tracker

Tue, 01 October 2024

  • 9:58 am Activist Morara Kebaso presented at the Milimani Law Courts.
  • 9:00 am Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah files petition to stop SHIF rollout.
  • 8:46 am  Prime CS Musalia Mudavadi reveals govt will use proceeds from diaspora bond sale to fund JKIA revamp
  • 8:00 am Amnesty International demands the release of Activist Morara Kebaso who is currently being detained by the police.
  • 7:20 am Social Health Authority CEO Elijah Wachira orders hospitals to continue treating kidney, cancer, and maternity cases as the country transitions to SHIF. 
  • 7:05 am DP Rigathi Gachagua warns that he will not allow President William Ruto's close aides to order him around.

Mon, 30 September 2024

  • 5:50 pm The third attempt to stop DP Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment motion fails. Justice Lawrence Mugambi to issue further directions on the petition on October 9, 2024
  • 5:17 pm The High Court dismisses former Murang’a Governor Mwangi Wa Iria’s petition seeking to challenge the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) decision to have him and others charged in the Anti-Corruption’s court.
  • 4:43 pm Activist Morara Kebaso was arrested by police officers at his Kahawa Sukari office and taken to Nairobi Regional Police Headquarters in Uphill.
  • 4:31 pm National Assembly Health committee clears Ksh104 billion health digitalisation project; says queries on cost, role of the contracted telco, and tendering have been settled.
  • 3:24 pm High Court Judge Chacha Mwita declines to issue interim orders for a second attempt by Sheria Mtaani's lobby to stop DP Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment; sets mention for October 9.
  • 2:51 pm The value of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party swells from Ksh10.5 billion as of June 2023 to Ksh11.6 billion as of June 2024.
  • 2:15 pm Sports CS Kipchumba Murkomen meets the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Africa Office Director Rodney Swigelaar over compliance with WADA regulations and hosting a continental anti-doping conference in Kenya for the first time.
  • 1:53 pm Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu has been arrested by officers attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and taken to the headquarters for questioning.
  • 1:18 pm The government has announced that the affordable housing program in Mukuru is set to receive its first batch of tenants by December 2024.
  • 12:46 pm John Mweha, a community leader, files a petition demanding the removal of a naked boy statue at the Supreme Court terming it culturally insensitive and fostering inappropriate representation.
  • 12:28 pm Health CS Deborah Barasa confirms that at least 2,160,000 Kenyans have registered with the Social Health Authority ahead of its rollout tomorrow.
  • 11:57 am National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) summons Galole MP Said Buya Hiribae and Jibril Mohammed Farah, MCA Bangale Ward, for inciting youth to destroy police stations.
  • 11:24 am Mombasa Governor Abdulswamad Nassir absolves himself from any wrongdoing as police continue to crack down on individuals who sexually assaulted a blogger critical of the Coast leader.
  • 10:53 am The High Court declines to issue interim orders stopping the National Assembly from tabling and debating the motion to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.
  • 10:23 am The selection panel shortlists  9 candidates for the SRC chairperson post to replace Sarah Serem; interviews are slated for between October 8, and October 9, 2024.
  • 9:37 am Pastor Dorcas Rigathi says that impeachment against her husband, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, will be a hard task noting, "One who was prayed for on the altar can only be removed by the same altar."
  • 9:17 am A team from Kenya Air Force (KAF) visits Starehe Girls’ Centre to provide students with valuable insights into academic success, career development, and personal growth.
  • 8:52 am Reports indicated that Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa has collected 242 signatures from lawmakers in support of impeachment against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.
  • 8:25 am Senior Advisor Moses Kuria reveals that Kenyans registered with Social Health Authority will receive services from any contracted private and Faith-based hospitals equal to public hospitals beginning Tuesday, October 1, 2024.
  • 7:54 am EPRA shut down 14 petrol stations selling adulterated fuel and fined 3 others after a nationwide crackdown between July and September this year.
  • 7:16 am Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua denies banging tables and demanding Ksh8 billion from President William Ruto noting, "I don't have interest with any money. I saw yesterday the local dailies writing some nonsensical things that I banged tables at State House."

Sun, 29 September 2024

  • 6:50 pm A transformer exploded along Ronald Ngala in Nairobi's Central Business District; the number of casualties (if any) is still unknown.
  • 6:02 pm Mombasa Lands CEC Mohamed Hussein was arrested in connection with the gang rape of a blogger who criticised Governor Abdulswamad Nassir.