The High Court has declined to grant conservatory orders sought to suspend the upcoming Banissa Constituency by-election, choosing instead to prioritize the full hearing of the case. In his ruling, Justice Lawrence Mugambi directed that the application and main petition be consolidated and heard together on an expedited basis. The…
Harrowing scenes unfolded in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday as residents laid out bodies in the streets following Brazil’s deadliest police raid in history, which left at least 119 people dead. The operation, targeting drug gangs in the city’s favelas, has reignited fierce debate over Brazil’s heavy-handed approach to organized…
The Employment and Labour Relations Court has ruled that the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) has no constitutional mandate to recruit police officers, declaring the recently advertised recruitment exercise null and void. Delivering the judgment, Justice Hellen Wasilwa stated that under the Constitution of Kenya, only the National Police Service…
Controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie allegedly ate in secret while in police custody, even as his devoted followers continued a hunger strike believing that fasting would deliver them from criminal prosecution, a police witness has told the court. Testifying before Principal Magistrate Leah Juma at the Shanzu Law Courts, Assistant Superintendent…
A Dutch national, identified as Elwin Ter Horst, has publicly apologized after a viral video captured him verbally abusing and spitting at a police officer in Diani, Kwale County. Horst claims that he was unwell and suffering from psychosis at the time of the incident. In a video shared widely…
Pressure is mounting on Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen and Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja to take decisive action against a foreign national caught on camera verbally abusing and harassing police officers at Diani Police Station in Kwale County. The incident, captured in a widely circulated video on Tuesday…
Kenya’s celebrated former middle-distance runner and retired academic, Prof. Mike Kipsugut Boit, has detailed before an Eldoret court how he lost Ksh 1.4 million to his trusted driver through an elaborate mobile and bank fraud scheme. Testifying before Eldoret Chief Magistrate Dennis Mikoyan, the 76-year-old former Professor of Exercise and…
A 21-year-old man from Mbande Village in Malava Constituency, Kakamega County, is receiving treatment at Webuye General Hospital after being shot by police during a violent confrontation with mourners. The incident occurred when a group of mourners reportedly attempted to transport the body of their relative to the home of…
Police in Kisumu County have launched an intensive investigation following the gruesome murder of a 41-year-old man whose body was discovered beheaded in Muhoroni on Tuesday, October 28, 2025. The horrifying scene was first reported at around 6:40 a.m. when Wickliff Okoncho, a boda boda rider and security agent, notified…
In a chilling incident that has left residents of Lugari Sub-County in shock, a man narrowly escaped death after unknown attackers allegedly tied him up and set his house ablaze early Monday morning, October 27, 2025. The victim, Patrick Magunamu, from Anjimbi Village in Marakusi Ward, was found alive inside…