News Tracker

Wed, 09 October 2024

  • 8:52 am Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officers on Tuesday evening arrested two people in Mombasa County for allegedly posing as Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) officers to extort shopkeepers. 
  • 8:21 am Babu Owino, Embakasi East MP, says he skipped voting on DP Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment because "I was highly engaged with other important and urgent matters affecting my constituents."
  • 7:45 am Trade Cabinet Secretary Salim Mvurya announced plans to appoint a Qatar representative to man the investor desk to be set up in his ministry.
  • 7:16 am Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua quotes two biblical verses in his reaction after 281 MPs voted to impeach him noting, "It is well."

Tue, 08 October 2024

  • 6:15 pm KAA announced that it will close Terminal 1E at JKIA beginning October 10 for renovations and directed affected airlines to be served through Terminal 1A.
  • 5:46 pm Former Kitui Governor Charity Ngilu fined Ksh500,000 for failing to honour Senate committee summons to shed light on the Kitui County Textile Center (KICOTEC) financial statements.
  • 5:21 pm Treasury CS John Mbadi alongside 3 other leaders, Kenya Pipeline Managing Director Joe Sang, Auditor General Nancy Gathungu, and PPRA Director Patrick Wanjiku, failed to appear in the Senate to answer to irregularities in the construction of Line 5 (Mombasa-Nairobi) Pipeline.
  • 4:50 pm DP Rigathi Gachagua arrives in Parliament where he is expected to defend himself against accusations levelled against him in his impeachment motion.
  • 4:00 pm Bungoma National Polytechnic students stage protest demanding principal's ouster. 
  • 3:48 pm MPs trade barbs as debate on motion to impeach DP Rigathi Gachagua gets heated. 
  • 3:27 pm NRG presenter Prudence Tonui alias King Kalala quits.
  • 2:58 pm 224,907 total responses were received over the impeachment of DP Rigathi Gachagua; 146,429 support the motion while 76,026 oppose it.
  • 2:19 pm The 6 judges, Joel Ngugi, George Odunga, Aggrey Muchelule, Weldon Korir, Evans Makori, and Judith Omange, who former President Uhuru Kenyatta declined to appoint were awarded Ksh126 million compensation by the High Court.
  • 1:36 pm Former IEBC Chairperson Issack Hassan shortlisted for IPOA chairperson role. 
  • 1:08 pm KANU Communications Officer Cornelius Ronoh set free after he was reportedly abducted in Fedha, Embakasi yesterday.
  • 12:27 pm National Assembly Deputy Speaker Gladys Shollei accuses DP Gachagua of treason alleging the latter was actively involved in a plot to overthrow President Ruto
  • 12:00 pm Activist Morara Kebaso says he has been arrested by suspected police officers driving Subarus.
  • 11:44 am Speaker Amason Kingi convenes a Senate sitting on Tuesday, October 8 to hear impeachment case against Kericho Governor Eric Mutai. 
  • 11:28 am Kibwezi West MP Mwengi Mutuse, who is moving the impeachment motion against DP Gachagua questions how deputy president's children secured Ksh600 million loan
  • 10:46 am National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula rules MPs who had already appended their signatures to the DP Rigathi Gachagua impeachment motion cannot withdraw their support. 
  • 10:00 am National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula and motion mover Mwengi Mutuse take issue with DP Rigathi Gachagua's national address on Monday. 
  • 9:52 am Millicent Omanga shortlisted to be a member of the Commission of Administrative Justice (Ombudsman).
  • 9:00 am Kieni MP Njoroge Wainaina admitted to hospital
  • 8:52 am KMPDU Sec Gen announces 14-day strike notice over hitches experienced with SHA rollout
  • 8:00 am Security beefed up in Nyeri County as Parliament set to debate DP Gachagua impeachment motion.
  • 7:49 am Kimani Ichung'wah faults DP Gachagua's impeachment defence stating the deputy president sat in cabinet where he could have challenged any policies he was dissatisfied with. 
  • 7:00 am Wiper Party calls out the Office of Registrar of Political Parties (ORPP) for late communication of party changes submitted earlier in the year during which Farah Maalim, now de-whipped was named deputy party leader. 

Mon, 07 October 2024

  • 7:52 pm DP Rigathi Gachagua confirms he will appear before the National Assembly on Tuesday at 5:00pm to defend himself during the impeachment hearing.
  • 5:25 pm British Golfer John Middleton ,75, found brutally murdered at his Utange residence in Mombasa. Kisauni DCC Jamleck Mbuba revealed that the body was discovered in a bathtub.   
  • 4:48 pm Another Kenyan Athlete, Clement Kemboi, was confirmed dead on Monday, October 7, after his body was found in Koisungur, Iten, Elgeyo Marakwet County likely a result of suicide.