Stephen Serulo, Zablon Barasa and Mr Richard Sikudi, have sued the Atlanta-based company, its Africa subsidiaries (Coca Cola Central, East and West) and local agent Equator Bottlers Limited in Funyula on behalf of 55 other complainants.
The three petitioners have taken the soft drinks giant Coca Cola to Court after one of their distributor sold them contaminated drinks.
In the petition, the petitioners on behalf of other complainants say they bought soft drinks in separate ceremonies last year.
They have medical proof indicating that more than 30 people who took the drinks suffered acute abdominal pain, diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting, with severe body weakness.
Dr. Sande Charo, Medical superintendent at Busia County referral Hospital confirmed to the court through a medical report that some of 60 patients were confirmed sick by the hospital and got their treatment there.
Dr Charo told this writer that most of them were treated for food poisoning and given strong antibiotics.
He also confirmed that Two of the patients succumbed to severe food poisoning related complications.
Kenya Bureau of Standards reports presented in court by the petitioners revealed that the samples of the drinks taken from the site did not meet the required food standards.
High Court in Busia has started the pretrial of this one of the biggest consumer case in the History of Kenya.
Some of the complainants who have joined the petition have been having complications for over over 4 years now.
In December 2018, Coca Cola, through Anjarwalla and Khanna Advocates, tried to blackmail the plaintiffs’ lawyers to consider the compensation package.
The petitioner said Coca cola has been trying an out-of-court settlement with them.
The drink giant was offering Sh45,000 through their lawyers as an individual compensation cut.
They turned down the deal saying its a blackmail by the company’s law firm and totally unrealistic for the massive damage their substandard drink caused.
Nicholas Okumu and Mr John Osiako appeared before Busia High court Justice Waweru on 10th of June for cross-examination by defence lawyers.
When Kiritu Bobo as she calls herself posted a tweet one day, to her it was just one of her many random thoughts she shared on Twitter. However, unknown to her, the tweet she sent was about to change everything if not her life.
Having had the thoughts, Kiritu tweeted three lines “one day I’ll be in the billboard” and just like that, Twitter picker it up and decided to make her dream come true.
Twitter came through after taking notice and unreal as it seemed, things took a whole new twist with the reply.
Hello! We love your Tweet and want to use it in a custom placement in the Cannes Daily Lion News which will be distributed in Cannes, France for 4 days in June. Please let us know if you have any objections! Thanks!
After this, a moment of silence and uncertainty on the lady’s side ensued until a random user alerted her on spotting the billboard with her handle in France.
— Hannah THEE Baker 👩🏾🍳 (@Kiritubobo) June 13, 2019
And that’s when the reality hit. She was eventually on a billboard, giant one for that purpose and more so on a giant brand. Twitter finally made her dream come true. A lifetime opportunity.
Twitter has launched its first global marketing campaign to specifically honour its ‘influential and movement-making’ audiences across the US, UK and Brazil to communicate the strength of its audience to marketers.
Following-up a year-long campaign which has lauded this audience using the hashtag #StartWithThem the new campaign is led by a hero film and includes associated banners and print elements to highlight the potential present in real people and passions.
As part of this activity, Twitter has selected a handful of true stories spanning across audiences including beauty, gaming, entertainment, women in sport and music by bringing genuine trendsetters to the fore.
Mastermind Tobacco tycoon Wilfred M’iti Murungi lived a reclusive life. He hardly mixed with villagers in his Magutuni area, Tharaka-Nithi County.
When he died last week, the villagers and his friends were still asked to keep off.
Only eight family members were allowed to witness the burial ceremony that took approximately one hour.
Heavily armed police officers from Magutuni and Chogoria police stations deployed at his palatial homes guarded the three gates, making sure that no single curious villager sneaked in to watch the casket containing the body of the man they referred to as ‘Master’ being lowered into the grave.
Two helicopters, one carrying the casket and the other one family members and a cleric from Nairobi, touched down at Kiurani Primary School at around 11.10 a.m. A classy Mercedes-Benz hearse was on standby to ferry the body to his home, about a kilometre away.
The casket was hurriedly taken out of the chopper and loaded onto the hearse by the family members, among them his two sons and two daughters.
While this was something the residents who came in droves for burial didn’t anticipate, it was something familiar to them. The tycoon’s Wife was also buried in a similar pattern.
Family members offload the casket carrying the remains of Wilfred Murungi, the Mastermind Tobacco founder, from a chopper at Kiurani Primary School grounds in Tharaka Nithi on June 11, 2019. Only eight family members attended the burial. PHOTO | ALEX NJERU | NMG
Mastermind used to live in the US with his wife, but when he came and started his company in Nakuru and became prosperous the wife went on to the US to run other businesses.
Subsequently she had a Mpango wa kando there behind the tycoon, a Ben ten. This strained their marriage and she stayed there until she fell sick and wrote her will that excluded Mr Murungi Mastermind from the burial.
“While they buried her he went to his mother’s home and stayed there. He did not go to Nairobi immediately like alleged in the Media.” A source says.
Continues, “The wife, Joyce was so jealous. Kamati ya roho chafu. She didn’t want anyone to share in their estate. The reason she demanded that her kids do not marry.” None of The children have married following their mother’s wishes.
Apparently, the late wife made a bitter wish when she fell sick in the US and she became very bitter and wrote her will and wishes and commissioned an attorney from the US to bring the contents of her will and wishes on her final rights. She coowned the companies in the US and Kenya with the tycoon.
His handler and trusted ally after his wife’s drama and running to the US was and his last Born brother a 65 year old Mr Mutegi who has been largely blamed for mismanagement of his burial of the billionaire.
Even in death Mutegi blocked people from paying their last respects to a man they fondly called master, their employer and their champion.
He lead a quiet life but was involved deeply in mount Kenya foundation(Mt Kenya mafia) to fund campaigns for presidential candidates and recently buying of cars for central Kenya provincial administration. He’s an instrumental person in the group.
In recent years he changed alot and became very reclusive. In 80s and 90s he used to hang around the village with his childhood friends and family which changed drastically and he became very private.
His death came at a time the area MP was battling with him to snatch a contract a company associated with him to build the road that also passes near his home. It’s so intriguing and confusing no-one on the family can tell you why he was buried that way.
Murugi’s family included: Angela who’s described as very nice but reclusive just like her father. Audrey him of House of waine Karen, Allan who owns Sierra Breweries and said to be the friendliest and finally Eric.
Ms Jane Marriott OBE has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Kenya in succession to Mr Nic Hailey. Ms Marriott will take up her appointment in summer 2019.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Full name: Jane Marriott
2016 to 2019
FCO/Home Office, Director, Joint International Counter-Terrorism Unit
2015 to 2016
FCO, Additional Director, Middle East and North Africa Directorate
2013 to 2015
Yemen, Her Majesty’s Ambassador
2012
National Security Council, Deputy Director, Americas, Middle East and Africa
2010 to 2011
Tehran, Chargé d’Affaires and Deputy Head of Mission
2009
Roles as Senior Political Advisor to US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke in Washington, and as Chief Speechwriter to the Secretary of State for Defence in London
2006 to 2009
Roles as Deputy Head of Afghanistan Group in London and in the US CENTCOM Assessment Team under General Petraeus in Washington
2005 to 2006
Baghdad, Counsellor (Political-Military and Economic)
2004 to 2005
FCO, Team Leader (Political-Military) and acting Deputy Head, Iraq Policy Unit
2004
Kabul, Political Advisor to the Combined Coalition Forces
2003 to 2004
Al Amara (Iraq), Political Advisor to the Coalition Forces
2001 to 2003
FCO, Team Leader, Nuclear Non-Proliferation
1998 to 2001
Roles in Cabinet Office, Foreign Policy Secretariat, the Home Office Criminal Justice Bill Team, and on Diversity Policy in the Cabinet Office
For long betting firms in Kenya has been making billions in a not tightly regulated industry. The doors had been left open that anyone with dirty money would troop to Kenya to launder their cash and if it’s not in real estate, gambling gave a soft avenue.
It is now emerging that despite making billions in profits, the firms have been withholding taxes prompting the tax collector to knock at their doors. It’s also alleged that for long the firms have been conspiring with old guard KRA commissioners to evade paying tax until the locks were changed and not its hell.
Gamblers have over the weeks complaining about not being able to withdraw their winnings from the portal as it has been. While Betin has been giving its clients excuses like their system being down, the truth has never really been said.
Fact is Reports indicate that Betin has accrued Sh11B taxes. KRA had written notices to Safaricom and their respective banks demanding for the billions accrued in taxes while Safaricom has frozen the accounts of the operator following KRA’s move.
Betin paid its clients via Safaricom Paybill Number which they also use to deposit their bets. What this means Betin can’t pay you anything even if you win for the simple reason that their accounts have been frozen and have no money in plain terms.
All their operations have been stopped effectively as they have nothing to work with. So until the firm sorts out the tax issue, things will remain as they’re. In the worst case that they fail to pay and are bundled out of market, your money could be swallowed of the authorities don’t jump in to ensure all refunds are made.
Until then it’s a wait and see as Betin Kenya has filed a petition in Court challenging Kenya Revenue Authority’s demands of Sh11 billion accrued taxes from the betting company.
In its petition, the firm argues that the decision to demand the funds owed to the taxman will have an impact on their business and result to huge losses as the firm would be unable to conduct its basic operations like salaries payment and payment of money to suppliers and other service providers.
Terms must not be softened for foreign firms that come in to dupe the system, making billions and not paying taxes and stashing in tax havens.
Accustomed to heavy traffic jam, the Magadi Road expansion has been set in what will dwell a sigh to Rongai residents who have to undergo long stays in the hectic traffic jam on daily basis.
Chinese contractor Synohydro has won the tender to dual the Bomas-Ongata Rongai-Kona Baridi stretch in a move aimed at reducing traffic congestion within the city.
The 22.65 kilometre stretch is set to be built through a performance-based maintenance contract that gives the selected contractor up to 10 years for maintenance and repair.
Synohydro Construction Ltd has estimated it will take around one year to dual the road.
The road starting at the junction of Lang’ata road near Bomas and runs towards south-west direction through Ongata-Rongai and terminates at Kona Baridi.
The 13.9 kilometre road starts at the junction of Langata road near Bomas of Kenya, heading in a westerly direction through the Karen shopping and commercial centre (roundabout) and ends at Dagoretti Market T-Junction.
The scope of work on this road will entail upgrading to dual carriageway with the exception of a section of some 3-Km between Karen road and the Hub shopping centre, which have already been dualled.
The dual-lane section will be terminated just before the Southern bypass ramps in order to prevent major works, increased land-take and disruption to the Southern bypass since the existing underpass does not allow for the dual-lane width.
Controversial city lawyer Donald Kipkorir alias DBK, has taken the plight of Jubilee election rigger Davis Chirchir on twitter streets.
A screenshot of DBK’s tweet and comments Photo|Twitter
Chirchir has been abandoned by the ‘digital’ battalion led by Uhuru Kenyatta and the notorious William Ruto.
Many of you remember Chirchir; if you followed the live coverage of the election tallying and results at Bomas of Kenya on both August 8 and October 26, you will remember Chirchir’s quiet presence at a corner of the tallying centre.
The man in Ruto’s Jubilee brand cape that had glued firmly on his laptop as the results streamed in.
The former Energy Cabinet Secretary was Jubilee’s chief agent for the August 8, 2017 General Election and the October 26 repeat presidential poll.
The fate of Jubilee’s Chief strategist and Agent chirchir remains unknown to everyone even after previous speculation and his own egocentric thoughts that he would land a big role in Jubilee’s government.
In 2015, the notorious Chirchir was kicked out of Jubilee Cabinet over corruption charges filed against him by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC).
EACC accused Chirchir of colluding with a top official at KPLC to embezzle Sh90 Million transferred from the Kenya Pipeline Company to Kenya Power.
Before Jubilee, Chirchir was in charge of Information Communication Technology at the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC); he later met Uhuru Kenyatta through William Ruto that made him appointed Chief Agent for the Jubilee Party.
He was later rewarded with his appointment to Energy Ministry after illegally accessing IEBC servers and tampering with the Presidential results that saw Jubilee rig in to Power in 2013 elections.
In the same 2013, the then Nasa presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, disputed the outcome of the Presidential polls after NASA legal team, led by Siaya Senator James Orengo, found proof that Chirchir had hacked into the IEBC servers in favour of President Kenyatta.
NASA team also provided evidence to proof right the allegations that Chirchir was involved in inspecting the printing of election material at a go-down along Mombasa Road.
Sources speaking to this writer says that Chirchir has been roaming in and around State House seeking Uhuru’s help to appoint him as the ceremonial Secretary to the Cabinet.
A post that has never been filled since Nyandarua Governor Francis Kimemia quit.
Jubilee handlers also told this writer that Chirchir was to be appointed the State House Comptroller but the election loss of former Nakuru governor Kinuthia Mbugua robbed him that chance.
And his unmanageable scandalous behaviors saw him being thrown away from the list of those who were to be appointed as State House Chief of Staff that’s currently under Nzioka Waita.
Even after going through these and doing all that for Jubilee, President Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto, Chirchir is still an employed man and to make it worse unrecognized by the very government he helped get into Power.
Kenya school of law has recorded an 8 year consecutive 53% fail in the Bar examination.
This has prompted the Senate to launch parallel investigations of the reason and unearth the cartels behind the mass failure of the Bar examination at the Kenya School of Law.
Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei, who’s the chair of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee launched a parallel investigation team following
a petition by one Mr Elkana Kitur and Mr Abdalla Suleiman.
Senator Cherargei said that the Senate is concerned about learning and credibility of the bar examination at the KSL.
From the numbers seen by the investigators of this site, the number of candidates failing the bar exams has been constantly increasing with more than 4% every year.
This cartel cooked up mass failure is the cause of increased frustration and uncontrollable depression among students who work harder in exams for them to be admitted to the Bar.
This is not the first time the Kenya School of Laws is being investigated, earlier this year Law Society of Kenya (LSK) launched investigation in these mass failure schemes and have an ongoing probe.
This decision was arrived after failed Bar students forwarded written complaints to LSK chair.
The Senate committee is going to investigate institution’s deep structures and exam systems.
Senator Cherargei assured that the committee is going to expose the cartels at Council of Legal Education (CLE).
Jacob Gakeri is the CEO at council of legal Education a body that has made Bar examinations their cash cow.
The Senate probe team will also conduct an audit of finances at the CLE, its leadership and the KSL to unearth the whereabouts of Resits and Remarking fees that the students pay.
KSL charges Sh5,000 per Unit, a Bar student sits for nine Units which means each student has to pay a total of Sh45,000.
The cash cow deal comes in when one fails because Remarking of a single unit paper costs Sh15,000 and the KSL charges a Resit of the paper Sh10,000.
Cartels have created a profittable disconnect between the way lawyers are trained and the exams they sit at the KSL.
KSL director David Mutai couldn’t explain why students are failing while he says he’s busy making sure the standards of the profession do not fall.
Mercy Wambua, LSKs Chief Executive told this writer that they set up a committee in November last year to establish why more than half of the students have been consecutively failing the exams.
In 2018, the taskforce chaired by lawyer Fred Ojiambo revealed that only 7,530 out of 16,086 bar students passed.
This means 8,549 failed, which loosely translates to a 53% failure rate.
This cartel mass failure of bar exams has caused uproar from students and legal stakeholders, and to make it worse failed candidates are only allowed to attempt the exams within five years.
And if the candidates fail after maximum number of attempts, KSL may permit them to attempt the Bar examination within a further five years after they have been readmitted to the advocates training programme.
This is an unjust training of key pillars of our Justice system.
Tuesday 11 June 2019, NAIROBI, KENYA – The Refugee Coalition of East Africa (RefCEA) received emergency communication from the compound known as Great Lakes on Monday 10 June 2019.
Great Lakes leadership stated that the Landlord had sent an Agent at 1:00 PM with immediate notice to vacate the premises by 4:00 PM. The action is a clear violation of the Tenancy Agreement from PATAYA PROPERTIES Item 11 “Should a tenants character be deemed undesirable, he/she will be evicted from the house. A notice of one month shall be given in advance.”
Part of the refugees.
Deep in the Kangemi area of the informal settlement in the west of Nairobi, RefCEA’s Executive Director Jacob Ssekitto and Advisory Board member Michael B. Clark had previously visited the compound and found around 76 people living in 6 rooms measuring 2 meters by 2 meters, sharing 3 or 4 to a single bed.
Great Lakes leadership pled with the Landlord to give them time to leave as many women in the group have children, and it is not reasonable to expect any group of 76 people to pack all belongings and leave without notice. The Kangemi Chief then joined the interaction and allegations were made that the group is cursed, that LGBT are not wanted here, and that they are spreading disease. They were notified that the police were being summoned and a crowd of onlookers gathered.
Assistance to mediate the conflict was requested and Jacob Ssekitto, Director of RefCEA travelled to Kangemi. En route, promised that no police would be summoned until he arrived. When he did so at 5:42 PM he was able to negotiate an extension on the eviction for two days, with orders to vacate by Wednesday, 12 June 2019.
Group thrown out by landlord.
Unfortunately, several residents had already started to vacate in an attempt to shelter before nightfall. The surrounding mob was still present, and the LGBTQI refugees were heckled, spat upon, and one man was stoned and beaten by the crowd until he was pulled to safety. Mr. Ssekitto instructed all Great Lakes residents to immediately return to their rooms, and guards were posted at the doors.
The population is predominantly originally from DR Congo, however those we spoke with included countries of origin including Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia and Ethiopia. We did not yet conduct a census but roughly the residents are 14 lesbians, 10 children, 20 transgender women, one intersex and the remaining gay and bisexual men.
The situation is indicative of the greater failure by the Kenyan government and UNHCR services to adequately provide for LGBTQI refugees in the region. Very few are receiving any form of financial assistance, medical care is impossible due to the cost of transportation and fear of using the local medical facilities. Many identifying as transgender stated they have not left their rooms in several months. Anti LGBTQI violence is the norm, and housing discrimination is common and permitted without any method of recourse.
“All LGBTQI refugees in Kenya are living in less than optimal conditions. However, the conditions for this group are among the worst I have seen, ever. The situation is dire. The Refugee Coalition will work with local and international partners over the next two days to secure funding for safe housing, transportation, security, and food. It is estimated that we will need 6 houses to hold 12 people each, at an estimated cost of 580,000 KSh / $5,800 USD by the morning of Wednesday 12 June 2019 to ensure all Great Lakes LGBTQI refugees are evacuated to safety.” – Michael B. Clark, RefCEA Advisory Board.
The Refugee Coalition of East Africa (RefCEA) is a registered community organization for and by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers. RefCEA was established to unite the various independent LGBTQI refugee organizations in East Africa under an umbrella organization in order to facilitate long-term planning, advocacy, and representation, and to provide fiscal management and fundraising support for its members. Additionally, RefCEA oversees research initiatives representing the LGBTQI refugee community and works toward improving conditions for refugees during the resettlement waiting period. Current membership consists of: Community Support Initiative for Refugees, Natures Network, Refugee Flag Kakuma, Urban Legacy Africa, and Arise Network Africa. www.refugeecoalition.com
As the investment firm engages investors in cat and mouse games and going on PR overdrive to save their exposed scandals. More than 50 investors have filed formal complaints at the Economic and Commercial Crimes Unit (ECCU) against Suraya Property Group which is involved in a scam amounting to nearly a billion shillings.
Suraya is being probed for allegedly swindling prospective home owners hundreds of millions of shillings in non-existent projects despite receiving full or partial payments.
Majority of the complainants yesterday visited the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters for the third time in a month to record statements of how they were defrauded in imaginary off-plan house ownership.
“In 2013, I paid Sh2.2 million for a house which was to be completed by the end of 2016. The cost of the house was Sh6.9 million and by 2016, I had paid Sh5.59 million. Upon asking why there were delays, both Muraya and Susan (directors)are always unavailable. Instead they send other people,” Joseph Laban said shortly after filing his complaint.
Directors of the real estate firm, Peter Muraya and his wife Susan Muraya, who are also the proprietors of the firm, are set to have a date with investigators over the house purchasing scams that has dogged the firm for close to a decade now.
“This involves commercial transactions. The criminal liability would come in if investigations show it was a deliberate scheme hatched to defraud,” a senior detective intimated.
Complainants’ account indicate that they invested in off-plan house purchase but the projects have either stalled or have not started yet.
Contractors engaged to undertake the construction are yet to be paid and have since resorted to auctioning Suraya land where the properties are located. They include Lynx Ngong Road, Lynx Nairobi West and Fourways Junction along Kiambu Road.
According to disgruntled investors who now say they’ve been swindled and their dreams of owning homes crushed, below are some of the reasons a potential investor should take a deep breath if not keep off completely from investing with the firm:
1. Suraya will market you a glossy looking property on a brochure and give you a spectacular discount if you buy off-plan. Fantastic offer!
2. Suraya will force you to use their lawyers as your own and you won’t be allowed to bring your own representation. You will never see your sectional title deed, meaning you can’t sell or transfer.
3. Once you make the the first payment and you are now in the bag, it’s Hotel California all the way. Once you go in you can’t come out. Severe penalties for pulling out or making late payments.
4. Stones and construction material will be dumped on site to make you think they have started construction. If very lucky building will get to 80% construction. Forget about the gyms, pool,boreholes, generator, playground that were in the brochures. Just forget it.
5. The construction itself will be 3rd or even 4th grade, pipes will continuously leak of sewage. All shortcuts possible in construction will be taken. Several contractors will be employed and fired along the way.
6. Meanwhile if you dare call or visit their offices with any issue (unless making payment) you will be treated like the villain that you are! Unanswered calls, rude emails and broken promises all through. It’s like a bad bad marriage.
7. If you do happen to eventually get tenants in your premises, prepare to charge far less than the market value, pay for so many repairs and never break even. You will receive complaints from the tenants day and night.
8. The service charge they said they would pay for you for 10 years which you paid for in the purchase price? Forget about that. You will soon end up paying for the security firm, garbage collection, cleaning services etc just to keep it humanly habitable.
9. If you are a mortgage buyer, since you can’t occupy your unit due to bank not signing off for lack of complete documentation, Suraya will rent out your unit and keep the money. You are now financing a used home instead of a new one.
10. Once you take over your property, you will be shocked to find the power and water bills used during construction amounting to millions were not paid and now you have a house-warming gift to pay off with your fellow investors. Welcome to your new home!
Story of Brian reads something like a movie which is yet to be classified. From his Facebook timeline where from time now he has been sending the president threats, it shows a young frustrated man with a mind of his own.
Following threats to president and daring to take action himself, Brian who claims to be an Ethiopian by principles jumped over the fence of Statehouse gate B and when he was told to stop by the guards, he withdrew a knife prompting officers to fire injuring him.
Luckily, he survived and has since been referred to a mental Hospital for checkup as he recovers from the bullet wound on his shoulder he sustained in the botched attack.
Of concern is what motivated the young man to pull a move that can only be described as suicidal. It has since emerged that Bera, a 5th year Mechanical Engineering student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) has the attack all planned out, publicly, on his Facebook page which is currently going viral.
“Let my messages reach everyone. I am going slay Thief President Uhuru Kenyatta. Those calling me mad, why have you not come to arrest me and take me to Mathare? I have been here inside Jkuat. I will slay whoever is partner with thieves that stole my inheritance. Whoever stole the land God gave to my fathers must die.” He says in one of his ranting posts.
He continued, “I’d rather be a house boy slave in Amhara Ethiopia than be an Employee under a Kikuyu in Kenyan government even if I am the Deputy President. Uhuru Kenyatta and his people Kitos stole my ancestral land. They stole my inheritance.”
“I will start by slaying Uhuru Kenyatta with the sword then I will take back my land from my oppressors.” Said the university student insinuating his key issue being out of elites oppression.
“I had a dream in June 2015. In the dream, I saw a sword pierce through the chest of President Uhuru Kenyatta near my home in Kitale.
The dream came twice.
In one of the dreams a hand held the sword. I perceive that hand to be God’s hand.
In the second dream, my hand held the sword that pierced through the chest of President Uhuru Kenyatta around where the heart is located.
Share this message until it reaches President Uhuru Kenyatta.
If he does not arrest me, then he uses threats to prevent people from speaking the truth.
Since he is just a man of threats, I will take the action of war against him.” He wrote.
In his last post before resorting to the action he threatened to personally attack the president, Kibet posted on his Facebook, “
To: Thief President Uhuru Kenyatta and his partners
Tomorrow I attack State House.
God has sent me to execute judgement on every thief and every partner of a thief.
{From Prince Of Ethiopia, formerly called Brian Kibet Bera}
A reprieve could be on the way for many internet data bundles consumers who’ve fir long suffered by having their data balance consumed on expiry.
Former Kiambu governor William Kabogo is contemplating suing telcos over expiry date for data bundles.
Kabogo has reportedly contracted lawyers to draft a plan on the intended litigation with a view of freeing consumers from what he views as economic servitude.
“You cannot sell me sugar and then attach a condition that if I will not have consumed it within a specified time frame then you will come to repossess i…What you buy must belong to you,” he said.
He added that mobile data providers “are treating their data bundles like a pregnancy that once you carry it to term, you got no choice but give birth …”
The politician said he believes that data bundles should not have an expiry date and if they must have, then they should be renewable.
“We are not saying that we be compensated for data not used within specified time frames. If it is for their logistical convenience that there must be an expiry date, then all unconsumed data as long it was initially paid for should be renewed and not expire,” he said.
By restricting customers to deplete their data bundle before expiry is inconvenient as everyone have their own pace of consumption. It can also be argued that on expiry, the unused bundle is recycled or rather resold which is more profits to telecos and injurious to consumers.
A spouse is not automatically entitled to half of the marital property in case of a divorce.
This follows a High Court ruling in Murang’a in which the judge held that sharing of property will be based on the contributions made by the two parties.
Justice Kanyi Kimondo, however, noted that the contributions may be direct or indirect.
He also ruled that the party (divorcee) demanding a share of assets must prove his or her contribution towards the acquisition or development of said the property.
The judge gave the directions when delivering a judgment in a matrimonial property case where former spouses were embroiled in a fight on the mode of sharing their assets, which include three parcels of land.
The woman, identified as Ms PNK, had been granted only half of the matrimonial home but not a share of any other property owned by her ex-husband which prompted her to move to court.
She was seeking a declaration that she is entitled to half of all the properties acquired during her marriage to the ex-husband Mr FKK.
The two, who were in a customary union, were divorced through a court order on August 1, 2017.
They married in 1974 but separated more than a decade later, in 1987. They reunited in 2010 and later dissolved the marriage in 2017, the court heard.
Ms PNK listed three properties – two plots of land in Gakoigo and Ikumbi Township in Murang’a, and a third in North Kinangop in Nyandarua County.
She told the court that she had made financial as well as non-financial contribution towards the purchase or development of all the properties. In particular, she claimed that she partly financed the construction of the matrimonial property situated in Gakoigo.
While testifying in court, she said her contribution was made through tea picking with the proceeds going to the development of the Gakoigo property.
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Mr FKK, however, opposed the claim saying that as at the date of their separation, the couple had not acquired any property.
Further, he claimed that he acquired the said assets during his subsequent marriage to a woman with he lives with in Kinangop.
On the Gakoigo property, Mr FKK said that the land was given to him by his mother and that he took a loan to develop rental units on it. He said he was surprised when his ex-wife moved into the property without his consent.
“The applicant was my wife from 1974. We could not get children and she left after 13 years. It is not true that I was cruel. She returned in 2010 and moved into the property. I asked her to be collecting rent and to submit it,” he testified.
He told court that the Gakoigo property was not developed from the tea proceeds but from money he borrowed from the Regional Loans, Kangari and Afya Sacco.
Justice Kimondo said the court found that the woman had failed to prove that the acquisition or developments were made from tea proceeds or that she contributed in any other manner.
He dismissed the woman’s claim for a share of the Gakoigo property saying that evidence had shown that it was not her matrimonial home but Kangari before they relocated to Ikumbi.
“I am satisfied that during the 13 years’ coverture, the applicant made indirect or non-financial contribution towards the Ikumbi Township property. The respondent offered no clear rebuttal. I would in the circumstances, and in the interests of justice, grant the applicant half of the parcel in Ikumbi Township,” ruled Justice Kimondo.
If that property cannot be sub-divided, Justice Kimondo stated, a valuation should be done.
“Either party will then be at liberty to purchase the other’s interest. In the alternative, the property shall be sold and the proceeds divided equally between the applicant and respondent,” he ordered.
On the Kinangop land, the judge found that the woman had not made any contribution towards its acquisition or development.
“The claim on that property is equally dismissed,” ruled Justice Kimondo.
Following series of attacks on Esther Passaris by Governor Sonko, Suba North MP Millie Odhiambo came to her rescue during a heated debate in parliament where she accused male counterparts of using women’s sexuality to embarrass them.
“Madam speaker it is a puzzle at how our male MPs are dealing with issues to do with women. They have double standards and utter no word when women are being stoned but when it is one of them they will come here breathing fire in their own defence,” she said.
“I want to tell you that women are not low-lying fruits. Instead of focusing on their legislative and representative roles, they are busy oversighting women’s private parts. Why are they making our private parts their business?”
“Madam speaker these male MPs have over 20 lovers…we know them but we never make it our business. Why does it become their business if it is us,” she said.
The MP said Assembly’s speaker Justin Muturi should facilitate the return of the V-monologues to allow them to have substantial debates over the matter.
“The other day it was Shebesh, no one said anything. Today it is Passaris and who knows who will suffer the same fate tomorrow. We are not going to allow that and I want to tell you our brothers we shall deal with you perpendicularly,” she said.
“What is wrong with Passaris telling Sonko I love you. There are so many forms of love like Agape love and the rest, why should our male MPs be the ones to define what form of love we should feel for so and so.”
“My husband is Zimbabwean, the reason I have no dual citizenship is because I am still negotiating with him on whether to marry a second and a third husband as men have done,” she said.
“If he allows me, I will come back to this house and change the law then declare even my triple citizenship. The men should thus stop judging us on where we are married yet they have married several foreigners.”
The thief Kilimo, used the advantage of the missing on duty officer to ransacked a nearby Police room belonging to Sergeant Wycliffe Juma Makhanu, the Station’s OCPP.
Sergeant Makhanu said Kilimo stole his two fully loaded G3s that he had kept under his Bed.
Speaking to the investigator of this site, OCPP said he that Kilimo accessed his room through the opened fire escape area.
This is not the first time Police service has lost riffles to thugs from careless and absentee officers on duty.
Last month thugs broke into a Police Post in Nandi County and stole 3 AK47s and loaded magazines.
The police officers on duty left the station unnamed to go and watch a European Champions League match between Manchester United and Barcelona.
It’s terribly bad and totally insecure for a society that government loaded guns are in untrusted hands of rogue civilians
It even makes it worse because those guns are being stolen from the Police, who are supposed to be the public protectors.
There is a thief out there with 2 loaded riffles. The same man who had been arrested because he wanted to commit suicide.
Police should be serious with their work and recover these guns before these maniacs commits a mass shooting attack on innocent people.
Fying squad have recovered and returned President Museveni’s car that was stolen seven months ago by Kenyans.
Museveni had contacted Uhuru informing him about his Black Toyota Kluger that was stolen from his fleet in November.
Investigators of this site have been informed that Uhuru Kenyatta was forced to dispatch the flying squads after ordinary Police failed to ensure that the car is recovered.
The Kenyan flying squad took the matter traced the car and found it in Gilgil. Flying squad trailed the carjackers for weeks and laid a trap at the Gilgil weighing bridge.
But someone from the public or their deep informers in the forces tipped the suspected car thieves that they were being trailed. They packed the car few meters before the weighing Bridge and vanished without leaving any trace of evidence in and on the vehicle.
The car was recovered with South Sudanese Number Plates; SSD 598M.
The vehicle currently at Nairobi flying squad offices, underwent further investigation and comparison of the chases and the numbers.
The dusting of the vehicle didn’t reveal any traces of finger prints. Meaning those who have been using the car for months now are deep in the web of carjacking mastermind.
The car was verified and chases matched with the documents and Kenya flying squad Commander handed over the vehicle to a team that had been sent by Museveni.
Uganda’s Presidential Press Secretary, Don Wanyama thanked Kenyan Flying Squad officer, John Njoroge through official post on Museveni’s social media sites.
One of Museveni’s site that Wanyama handle posted “Our machine is back, it has been a long chase, 8 months to be exact,”
This is not the first time these inter border car thieves are hitting the lime light. In September 2014, President Uhuru Kenyatta lost his chase car, a BMW.
The BMW had it’s tracking system vandalized and the vehicle transported to Uganda for a black market trade in.
It took the intervention of Museveni and Uganda Police forces with help of their Kenyan Cyber-crime CID department to recover the BMW.
Mid August last year, a Black V8 was also stolen from Kenya’s State House. The V8 was stolen from Uhuru Kenyatta’s Presidential convoy fleets.
Flying squad traced the car intercepted it at Boma N’gombe, Kilimanjaro with the help of Tanzania Police.
The Black V8 original plates ~KCP 184R, had been replaced with fake plates bearing the number T954 DEQ.
These State carjackers seem to be enjoying a blanket of cover from State personnel and some getting advised about every safety measure they should take to avoid arrest or being identified by the Police.
When police raided Humphrey Kariuki’s multimillion alcohol empire in Thika town months ago, the world of Kenya’s most reclusive billionaire was opened for all to see.
Detectives led by Inspector-General of Police Joseph Boinnet and senior Kenya Revenue Authority officials made what they said was a dazzling find: An estimated 21 million counterfeit excise stamps and 312,000 litres of illicit products — all worth billions of shillings in taxes.
Mr Kariuki’s Africa Spirits Limited is now under police watch even if it’s unclear how the authorities haven’t been able to get hold of him and arraigned him in court despite the tax evasion accusations. We suspect he could probably have bought his way out not to appear on the dock as he should’ve given the magnitude of his crimes.
Africa Spirits is only a small part of Mr Kariuki’s multibillion empire — all under the name of a holding company, Janus Continental Group and which encompasses all that a billionaire would want: A five-star luxurious Mt Kenya Safari Club originally a retreat to famous Hollywood stars such as William Holden — who founded the club.
Its members once included British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US singer and actor Harry Bing Crosby.
RESERVED
The name Janus is significant in one critical way — and for such an empire.
Janus, which means “the beginning and origin of things”, is an ancient two-faced Roman god who provided protection in the beginnings and endings “at the gates, the doorways, and passages and endings”.
As a god, Janus had the uncanny ability to see both in front and behind; thanks to his being a two-faced god.
But when detectives raided one of Janus’ establishments in Thika — it seemed that the protection against any nosy raid on Janus properties had vanished; at the tail-end of January (which ironically stands for the month of Janus).
Unlike other billionaires who love publicity, Mr Kariuki is the country’s equivalent of Mr Brad Kelley, the US tycoon known for his love of exotic animals, and who despite his extra-ordinary wealth shies away from publicity.
IMPORTED CARS
Born 61 years ago in Nyeri in a family of 10, Mr Kariuki studied at Nairobi School and Kagumo High School before joining Central Bank of Kenya when he was only 19 as a clerk.
“I was at the bottom of the ladder. I always tell people that in life you need to start from the bottom; the only place where you start at the top is when you’re digging a well. So I started as a clerk, and then went on to work in various other departments in the bank,” he told Forbes magazine in 2017.
Mr Kariuki says he made some “decent income” at Central Bank and that he ventured into the business world by importing cars — starting off with a car owned by his UK-based elder sister which he had shipped to Nairobi.
“I was able to sell (the car) at double the price my sister was asking for. I gave my sister her money and kept the rest for myself. I was amazed, and I wondered: ‘Is this how easy it is to make money?’”
And that is the story that Mr Kariuki tells about his rise into the billionaire ranks.
Photos of Kariuki’s Sh2.7B Bombardier Challenger 350
MEETING PLACE
He would later set up the famous Green Corner Restaurant at Nairobi’s Tumaini House, behind Kencom House, where he struck everyone as a hands-on manager.
Every morning, in the late 80s and early 90s Mr Kariuki — slim and always smartly dressed — would be here walking the tables and freely engaging his customers.
At best, he was always at hand to deal with customer complaints right away and this made Green Corner the go-to-and-must-be-seen-at place for the hip crowds of Nairobi.
The building, owned by the National Council of Christian Churches (NCCK) — was by then the mini-headquarters of anti-Moi elite squad and housed offices of fierce critics such as Pius Nyamora’s Society Magazine, lawyer Gitobu Imanyara’s Nairobi Law Monthly, and Dr Oki Ooko Ombaka’s Public Law Institute (PLI).
Green Corner, downstairs, was the perfect meeting point of all multiparty crusaders – likes of Raila Odinga, Paul Muite, Gitobu Imanyara and Prof Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o.
Another common face at the restaurant was Party of Independent Candidates of Kenya boss John Harun Mwau — a well-known millionaire.
RESTAURANTS
Whether Mr Kariuki took note of this crowd is not clear — but those who saw him then knew he was always apolitical. “He would say hello and disappear,” a man who knew him in those days tells this writer.
“We made the best hamburgers, steaks, and samosas among other things. For years, Green Corner was the place where professionals who worked in Nairobi converged for their lunch and business meetings,” he said in the Forbes interview.
Besides Green Corner, Mr Kariuki also had another restaurant which he named Twigs, which was next door to Green Corner but serving the higher end of clients.
For some strange reason, Green Corner was better known than Twigs Restaurant.
At the indoor parking of Tumaini House, Mr Kariuki’s car business blossomed and here, one could find the latest state-of-the-art European motor vehicle models such as BMWs, VWs, Mercedes and Range Rovers.
ALCOHOL
At any given time, there would be an average of five vehicles with foreign registration number plates.
After a few days, the vehicles would be replaced with another different set — meaning he was in a booming business.
Kariuki’s Bombardier Challenger 350
That Mr Kariuki would be able to import such high-end cars at a time when the foreign exchange regime was prohibitive meant a lot on the kind of business strings that he managed to pull or, perhaps, pointed to his acumen as an astute businessman.
But again, Mr Kariuki had previously worked at the Foreign Exchange Department of CBK which was approving foreign currency for businessmen intending to import goods.
While still in his late 20s, Mr Kariuki ventured into wines and spirits distributorship through Wines of the World Limited as the distributor for Jack Daniels, Bacardi and the Edrington Group, whose premium brands include The Macallan, The Famous Grouse, and Brugal rum.
SOUTH SUDAN DEALS
Later on, he started building his own factory in 2002 with the brand Blue Moon Vodka manufactured by Africa Spirits Limited – the company that was raided by detectives.
“I’m proud to say that Africa Spirits Limited is the most successful indigenous alcoholic beverage company in Kenya today,” he had said two years ago.
“The margins were astronomical. The volumes weren’t much, but the margins were crazy,” he told Forbes.
It was this period that he built the Hub shopping mall in Karen and also bought Fairmont Mt Kenya Safari Club in Nanyuki.
Interiors of Kariuki’s Bombardier Challenger 350
Besides the current raid on his factory, Mr Kariuki’s efforts to get an exclusive license to import and distribute 214 premium wine and spirit brands including Bacardi-Martini labels has been thwarted by the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) this year.
The Wines of the World wanted to enter exclusive distribution agreements with various alcohol manufacturers.
The current turn of events is yet another twist in the life of a man — so wealthy; and so reclusive — who provides wild animals with a place to call home at his Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy and Animal Orphanage.
What puzzles most Kenyans is how a man with such an high magnitude of economical crime has not been able to be arraigned before any court in the land and more so that his suspected fraudulent accounts have been unfrozen under unclear circumstances by a suspicious ruling.
Kenya is losing billions to unscrupulous businessmen like Kariuki who prey on loopholes in the system to make away with billions. DCI and relevant authorities need to be on the alert to ensure only clean deals gets to see the light of the day and crooks like Humphrey is alleged to have their day in court or better yet in jail.
There have been so many cases of family feuds that have escalated to an extent of one, or both of the partners killing other.
Last month, the Police in Namanga, Kajiado County arrested a middle-aged drunk man on suspicion of killing his wife and her suspected lover. The slashed bodies of the two were found in the man’s bedroom.
On a similar case, earlier this week, Ruiru OCPD James Ngetich said they have in custody a man who allegedly assaulted his wife to her death after they had a fight about the missing cash from his pocket.
The OCPD said that the woman’s life could have been saved by neighbours who snubbed her cries and grief pleas. Something that residents of Nairobi county don’t give priority to and most don’t care of whats happening in their neighbors houses.
This is not the first time this is happening, last month, Nyamira Deputy County Commissioner Michael Lesmam, confirmed that a 38-year-old woman stabbed her husband, 45, to death following a domestic disagreement.
The two are said to have disagreed after the husband accused the wife of stealing from him when he is sleeping.
Liquor and drugs have been the cause of many family feuds. Even though we can’t pin everything on drugs, being under influence of them plays a big role in some of this terrible decisions.
Depression and trust also has its role. The society is filled with depressed generation that are willing to do anything to go through their current situatioships.
No one has an upper hand in any form of violence. We can’t blame women for stealing from their sloshed husbands, just the same way we can’t blame the husbands from drinking to their slumber.
Relationships are always the best between two people who understand each other. Stop holding yourselves much to engagements that have no trust, care, or responsibility.
Here is a confession of how the city woman robs her tippler husband
The Lamu Senator was attacked by a group of estimated nine men when he was walking out of Memphis Lounge along USIU Road. The young legislator was then rushed to Aga Khan Hospital after sustaining deep cut wounds on his head and was sent to the ICU where his condition has stabilized.
According to a police report seen by this site and given by Agnes Saumu Mbuvi who’s daughter to the Nairobi Governor Sonko, the two has gone to the lounge to watch the UEFA final match when the incident occurred.
Ms Mbuvi has excused herself to the toilets after the match when a man she only describes as short and brown grabbed her by the neck. Saumu screamed out for help before the man would let her free.
Responding to the screams, the senator quickly followed and by then the attacker had already escaped into a room. Anwar is said to have dared the attacker to come out from his hiding place and face him as a man, “unatakia nini mwanamke wangu? Toka nje uniface kama mwanaume.” Saumu quoted the senator in her report to the police.
The injured senator in hospital.
Saumu asked the senator to let the matter go after the attacker cane out and pleaded for forgiveness. The two lovers then left for their car outside the club when a group of about nine men armed with clubs together with the unknown attacker pounced on him with the weapons injuring him severely. The lady was also injured when she was shielding the senator’s head from the attackers.
Jay Z becomes the first Forbes rated Hip Hop Billionaire Artist.
Over a decade ago, world’s richest man Warren Buffet, had lunch with Jay -Z at the Hollywood Diner in Omaha, Nebraska.
The two who were at a very separate and different socioeconomic level conversation was extended to Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway offices.
That’s what made richest man alive say this, “Jay is teaching in a lot bigger classroom than I’ll ever teach in. For a young person growing up, he’s the guy to learn from”
An Edition of the Forbes 400
According to 2010 Forbes 400 package, the Hip Hop inspired Jay-Z already had a blueprint for his own ten-figure fortune.
Forbes has been following Jay-Z moves and a decade later since he first met Buffett, Jay Z has an accumulated fortune worth $1 billion according to Forbes.
Forbes published that Jay-Z’s steadily expansive kingdom of fortune compromised of strong liquor brands, his art, real estate, which included his homes in Los Angeles, the Hamptons, Tribeca and stakes in Uber.
According to forbes, Jay Z was once the Brooklyn’s notorious Marcy drug dealer who later cleaned up to become a musician.
Jay Z started his own label, Roc-A-Fella Records, to release his 1996 debut, Reasonable Doubt.
Forbes records indicate that Jay Z has since produced 14 No. 1 albums, 22 Grammy awards and over $500 million in pretax earnings in less than a decade.
Forbes also published that Jay Z has his own brands which skyrocketed his fortune much faster without any cosign promotions.
Jay Z runs a clothing line Rocawear that started in 1999.
Forbes records indicate that Rocawear has made a profit of $204 million from 2007 alone since it changed to Iconix.
Forbes also published that co-owns D’Ussé cognac with Bacardi.
According to forbes, Jay Z also own Tidal, a multi-million music-streaming service.
Super producer Kasseem said Jay Z is bigger than hip-hop. He said Jay is a blueprint for the American culture.
“A guy that looks like us, sounds like us, loves us, made it to something that we always felt that was above us.” Kasseem told Forbes.
Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean, is the super producer behind some of Jay-Z’s biggest hits (“On To The Next One,”
Kasseem also Produced Beyoncé’s worldwide banger “Upgrade U”
According to Forbes, they calculated Jay Z’s net worth by studying his artist’s stakes in companies like Armand de Brignac champagne that Jay Z fully owns.
Forbes published that they applyed US customary discount to private firms, then added up his income, subtracting a healthy amount to account for Jay Z’s superstar lifestyle.
“We checked our numbers with a roster of outside experts to ensure these estimates were fair and conservative.” Forbes published.
Jay-Z is a real and massive business man. For instance, Jay Z owns;
Armand de Brignac
Valued at $310 million
File photo of Jay Z owned Amand de Brignac champagne Photo|Forbes
Jay-Z launched the $300 gold bottles of the “Ace of Spades” champagne Brand in 2006 with His Music video “Show Me What You Got.”
Jay Z’s verse on Meek Mill’s “What’s Free” put a half-billion-dollar value on his wine brand.
Cash & investments
Valued at $220 million
According to Forbes, Jay Z investing portfolio in Uber alone is worth over $90 million.
D’Ussé
Valued at $100 million
D’USSE Cognac Vsop 750 ML Photo|Forbes
Eric Schmidt, Beverage Marketing Corp.’s Director of Alcohol Research said that D’Usse’ moves more that 200,00 cases of liquor and has an 80% annual growth
Tidal
Valued at $100 million
A screenshot of the Tidal App
Jay-Z purchased the Scandinavian streaming service’s parent company for just $60 million in 2015.
He relaunched Tidal later that year bringing on board his celebrity wife, Beyoncé, and other music millionaire like Kanye West and Calvin Harris.
Roc Nation
Valued at $75 million
According to Forbes, the international entertainment company,Roc a Nation started over a decade ago as part of a joint venture with concert giant Live Nation.
Roc Nation represents top Stars through its sports agencts ,Kevin Durant, Todd Gurley.
It also has a record label and artists management Arm under Rihanna and J. Cole.
Music catalog
Valued at $75 million
A photogrid of Jay Z sampled Albums
According to Forbes, Jay Z negotiated the eventual return of his master recordings from a the label that helped him launch his career.
Before the beginning of his stint as Def Jam’s chief in 2004, Jay Z had a separate deal with EMI he later clawed back his publishing rights.
Currently Jay Z’s hits clock close to a Billion streams annually.
Art collection
Valued at $70 million
Jay-Z boasted about a Basquiat in his kitchen corner In the song “Picasso Baby,”
For over a decade, he’s been collecting masterpieces like Basquiat’s “Mecca,” purchased in 2013 for a reported $4.5 million.
“He’s rapped about it all in detail,” says Fab 5 Freddy, a contemporary and friend of the late painter.
Real estate
Valued at $50 million
One of Jay Z’s Homes / NEWSCOM
After welcoming twins in 2017, Jay-Z and Beyoncé bought a pair of homes to match: a $26 million East Hampton mansion and a $88 million Bel Air estate.
Also, Jay-Z owns a Tribeca penthouse valued at $66.85 million. He bought it in 2004 for only $6.85 Million.
*All prices and market value are Forbes estimated figures*
