The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) seized illicit alcoholic beverages valued in excess of Sh 2.4 million after the investigators raided a factory in Kenol town, Murang’a. In an operation spearheaded by the KRA enforcement Unit unearthed products that lacked KRA stamps, while the manufacturing plant was not licensed, among other anomalies…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke A damning audit by the Tea Board of Kenya (TBK) has unearthed a system of mismanagement at Kapkoros Tea Factory in Bomet County. Report by the regulator reveals how leadership has misappropriated farmers’ money leaving a trail of billion-shilling deficit at the factory. The investigations done between April 22 and April…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke A stand off ensued between security personnel within the Delmonte Kenya Limited plantation and the community, after a suspected pineapple thief was shot dead at close range. The killing of Stephen Marubu, 30, on Tuesday sparked violence as the residents in Kihiu Mwiri and Mwangario areas neighbouring the pineapple plantations, burned…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke EACC sleuths raided the residence and the office of the Laikipia County Assembly Speaker Lantano Nabaala following claims of forged academic forgery documents. Early in the morning, the EACC officers backed by the armed policemen moved in the Speaker’s residences Muthaiga estate in Nairobi and Nanyuki, before proceeding to the county…
The Kenya Women Governors caucus, G7, has strongly condemned the inhumane exploitation ofchildren especially girls in sex trade in Mai Mahiu.In a press statement the caucus led by Kirinyaga Governor, Anne Waiguru,stated that sexual abuse and trafficking of minors is not only a gross violation of human rightsbut was also a direct assault on the…
By BBC/ Njoroge Muigai & Anne Okumu On Monday, as anti-government protests swept across parts of Kenya, 12-year-old Bridgit Njoki sat watching television in her family’s modest home. She had no idea that the deadly clashes between these protesters and Kenya’s armed police would find their way into her living room. A single bullet pierced…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke The Saba Saba day demonstrations left a trail of destruction in Murang’a, with four deaths, looting of two supermarkets. Two patients were transferred to Kenyatta National Murang’a Level Five Hospitals, for specialised treatment, after they were shot on Monday. Governor Irungu Kang’ata described the destruction as exorbitant, castigating the police for…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Kiambu DCP youth leader Peter Kinyanjui alias Kawanjiru was picked by the anti terror unit officers at Ruiru law court in a dramatic episode. Gunshots rent the air as anti-terror squad arrested a suspect after the court released him on Sh500,000 bail with two surities, over claims of burning the Kikuyu…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has warned that ongoing killing of innocent Kenyans by thepolice could plunge the country into anarchy.Waiguru further warned again cover-up of the killings by police officers terming the recentshooting of a street vendor and the killing of Albert Ojwang at the Central Police Station inNairobi as unwarranted…
By AFP Hundreds of men armed with whips and clubs attacked groups of protesters in Kenya on Tuesday as they demonstrated against the recent killing of a man in police custody, AFP journalists saw. Tensions have risen as the East African country approaches the first anniversary of massive Gen Z-led protests sparked by tax rises, which the…
