Mediheal hospitals owner, Dr Swarup Mishra addresses a past press conference. [File, Standard] A committee probing suspected fraud in kidney transplants at the Mediheal hospitals wants authorities to investigate the owner, Dr Swarup Mishra, for potential criminal involvement in organ trafficking. It has also called for investigations into nephrologist Dr A S Murthy, urologist and transplant surgeon Dr Sananda Bag and anaesthesiologist Dr Vijay Kumar. The committee wants the four doctors probed for possible violations of national transplant laws and ethical standards. /* Container styling */ .fade-out-overlay { position: absolute; top: -80px; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 60px; z-index: 1; background: linear-gradient(to bottom,…
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Naivasha Member of Parliament Jayne Kihara has been summoned to appear before detectives at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Monday. According to the summons seen by The Standard, the legislator is accused of making inciteful comments at an unspecified event. The summons, signed by Deputy Director of the Investigations Bureau George Lenny Kisaka, who is also an Assistant Inspector General of Police, says the bureau is investigating “an alleged offence of undermining the authority of a public officer contrary to Section 132 of the Penal Code, CAP 63, Laws of Kenya; whereby a complaint on dissemination of inciteful…
Deputy Inspector General Kenya Police Service Eliud Lagat during a press briefing following Albert Omondi Ojwang’s death in police custody at Central Police station, Nairobi. June 9, 2025. [Jonah Onyango, Standard] London-based activist Eliud Karanja Matindi has filed a petition in court seeking to stop Patrick Tito from acting as the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) in charge of Kenya Police in the absence of Eliud Lagat. Tito was Lagat’s principal assistant while he was in office until the latter stepped aside. In the case, Matindi has sued the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) and the Attorney General. Lagat and Tito…
Police officer Dennis Munyao alias Afande Deno, during an interview at his local Machapo Food Kiosk at Kwandege in Embakasi, Nairobi. He was arrested for allegedly recording the recent Gen Z protest in Nairobi [Boniface Okendo, Standard] Police officer Dennis Munyao alias Afande Denno has claimed that one of the fellow officers who arrested him on Friday night in Pangani, Nairobi, strangled him. The officer, in an interview with The Sunday Standard said that he was with his cousin in Pangani when five men approached them, saying they needed to talk to him. He agreed to follow them only to be…
Mumias East MP Peter Salasya addressing youth along the Malindi- Mombasa highway at Kwa Chocha area in Malindi town Kilifi County on Saturday, May, 10, 2025. The First term MP took his 2027 presidential campaign to Kilifi and urged the youth to rally behind him for quality leadership in the country. [Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard]. Mumias East MP Peter Salasya was on Friday arrested in Nanyuki and brought to Nairobi for questioning. The legislator was locked up at Nairobi’s Central Station. The Sub County Police Commander Stephen Okal and Directorate of Criminal Investigations Officer George Momanyi confirmed Salasya was at the station. However,…
Pope Francis mingles with children inside a paddocked space set aside for Sunday school children at St Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in Kangemi, Nairobi on November 27, 2015. [File/Standard] A letter and a bad road were all it took for the St Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in Kangemi, Nairobi, to host the late Pope Francis on November 27, 2015. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he was the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church. According to the Parish Catholic Men Association moderator, Peter Magu, when they got wind that the Pope was to visit Kenya, he wrote…
Mediheal Hospital Parklands where former MP Ainabkoi William Chepkut was taken to and the management says his heart was not beating when he was received at the facility on 8th October 2022. [Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard] A Kenyan lawyer has written to German broadcaster DW seeking to have it pull down a story on kidney transplants at the Mediheal Group of Hospitals. Conrad Maloba of Conrad Law Advocates says that the story uploaded on YouTube was defamatory to his client. He not only wants the story pulled down but is also seeking to have the broadcaster apologise to his clients. The lawyer…