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Former Kenya Air force Colonel Seth Shava walks away from a fighter jet at the Laikipia base .r, 2019. Picture; Stafford Ondego A senior prosecutor is in trouble for causing a security breach at Laikipia Airbase barracks where her husband works. Adeline Rogito, the Nanyuki deputy in charge of the Office of Directorate of Public Prosecution (ODPP) was arrested on Sunday for creating disturbance and damage at the military facility. According to police, Rogito forcefully drove into a closed military gate after failing to stop to be cleared as is the norm. Rogito proceeded to the residence of her husband, a military officer,…
Jecinta Wanjiku Kabiru (centre) supported by relatives at their Thamanda home, mother to missing Benedict Kabiru who is serving in Haiti. [George Njunge, Standard] Benedict Kabiru was in the first batch of police officers deployed to Haiti to battle criminal gangs in the Caribbean County. Next month, his group will be returning. But will Kabiru be among them? .fade-out-container{position:relative;background:none;top:-95px;padding:4rem 0 2rem;text-align:center}.fade-out-overlay{position:absolute;top:-40px;left:0;width:100%;height:60px;z-index:1;background:linear-gradient(to bottom,rgba(255,255,255,0),rgba(255,255,255,1))}.subscribe-content{position:relative;z-index:2;padding:20px;background:#fff;top:-55px}.subscribe-content h1{font-size:2rem;margin:2rem 0;font-weight:bold;color:#ed1a3b}.subscribe-content h2{margin-bottom:2rem}.subscribe-content button{background-color:#ed1a3b;color:#fff;font-size:1.25rem;padding:.75rem 2rem;border:none;border-radius:0;cursor:pointer;margin-top:1rem;min-width:200px}.subscribe-content p{margin-top:1.5rem;font-size:.95rem}.subscribe-content a{color:#ed1a3b;text-decoration:underline} Jecinta Wanjiku Kabiru (centre) supported by relatives at their Thamanda home, mother to missing Benedict Kabiru who is serving in Haiti. [George Njunge, Standard] Published Date: 2025-05-07 10:00:00 Author: By Hudson Gumbihi Source:…
Grace Nduta Njoki displaying documents of land that she claims was grabbed in Kiambu county by cartels. May 5, 2025. [Jonah Onyango, Standard] A woman in Kiambu County is accusing local lands officials of frustrating her bid to acquire the title deed for a parcel of inherited land. Grace Nduta Njoki claims despite the court recognising her as the bona fide owner of the 2.65 acres of land in Ndumberi following completion of the succession process, the lands officials have deliberately denied her the vital ownership document. Apart from seeking help from Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the woman has…
Police officers lead by Homicide team investigate the killing of Kasipul MP Ong’ondo Were along Valley road-Ngong road-Mbagathi road roundabout. [Jonah Onyango, Standard] As they race against time to unmask the killers of Kasipul MP Charles Ong’ondo Were, detectives are analyzing a threatening message that was sent on the legislator’s mobile phone. A week before he met his death, Were had complained that his life was in danger. Investigators pursuing the killers are trying to identify the sender of the threatening message that stated “Utaona” translated to mean the MP was not safe and that he was living on borrowed…
Crime scene. [Photo, Standard] Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a pastor who was abducted alongside his driver along the Kitale-Eldoret highway. Pastor Meshack Orwa of a Migori-based Ministry of Holiness and Repentance church has been missing since Saturday. In the company of Duncan Opondo, the cleric was returning home from Kitale where they had spent two weeks attending a religious function when they were ambushed near Moi’s Bridge shopping centre in Soy Sub-County According to Opondo, their Subaru Forester vehicle was intercepted at around 5:30 pm by another saloon car whose armed occupants ordered them out. They were then bundled…
A section of Muthurwa market. [File, Standard] Six street boys have been arrested in connection with an abduction incident at Nairobi’s Muthurwa market. The urchins had kidnapped two teenagers from Kayole and were demanding money from their relatives. The victims, aged 17 and 18 years were heading to the city centre on Saturday morning when they were confronted by two street boys around Muthurwa market at around 9 am. According to police, the two boys (names withheld) were forced into a mabati hovel where they were stripped naked and assaulted with crude weapons in the 8-hour ordeal. During the torture,…
The interior of a Toyota Harrier. (Courtesy/iStock) A motorist was on Sunday abducted by gunmen in Garissa who took him away leaving behind the man’s four stranded children. Abdirahman Omar Sheikh was driving to Nairobi in the company of the children when he was ambushed. According to police, a white vehicle emerged from a petrol station and struck his Toyota Harrier car before another car arrived, blocking them. The children told police the armed men then alighted, pulled their father from the steering wheel and dragged him into the white car. Two of the men then took control of Omar’s…