Alice Waithera

Journalist at The Star (Kenya)

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Tears of family of mask vendor Kariuki shot by police

1 week ago | the-star.co.ke | Alice Waithera

It was not until Wednesday morning that a relative called her with the shocking news. The son she fondly calls Bonny had been shot by a police officer and was in critical condition at Kenyatta National Hospital. “I nearly collapsed. Bonny is my only son. He was just doing his work and was not doing any wrong. Why would somebody want to do him harm?” she sobbed. Njeri said Kariuki started hawking in the Central Business District immediately after completing his secondary education in 2020.
Housing levy hurting the economy, Ndindi Nyoro

1 week ago | the-star.co.ke | Alice Waithera

Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro has said the housing levy introduced by the government last year has injured the economy, as reported by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. The KNBS survey, conducted quarterly, confirmed that the construction sector shrank by over two per cent in 2024 after an 11-year upward trajectory. This is despite the government’s ambitious project to construct 200,000 affordable housing units annually.
State set to relocate 22 families displaced by rains in Kangema last year

1 week ago | the-star.co.ke | Alice Waithera

Public Service CS Geoffrey Ruku and Kangema MP Peter Kihungi in one of the homesteads destroyed by earth movements./ALICE WAITHERAFamilies that were displaced from their homes in Kangema, Murang’a county, by earth movements are set to be relocated to a safer area. The 22 families have been camping at ACK Kiairathe church since their farms were swept away by landslides by torrential rains experienced in the area in April and May last year.
Do thorough probe against rogue cop, lobby tells Ipoa

1 week ago | the-star.co.ke | Alice Waithera

A protester is carried after he was shot by a police officer on Tuesday during demonstrations over the death of blogger Albert Ojwang’ /DOUGLAS OKIDDYA lobby group wants the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (Ipoa) to take immediate action against a police officer captured on video shooting an unarmed trader in Nairobi.
Murang’a woos investors with land, tax incentives

1 week ago | the-star.co.ke | Alice Waithera

In SummaryThe county is in the process of establishing an Export Processing Zone on the land donated by the Delmonte company. “The EPZ is 70 per cent done and will have a total of 500 acres while the Special Economic Zone will have 800 acres,” Kang’ata said.
Waiguru warns police killings could plunge country into anarchy

1 week ago | the-star.co.ke | Alice Waithera

Governor Anne Waiguru during a past event./HANDOUTKirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has warned that the ongoing killing of innocent Kenyans by the police could plunge the country into anarchy. Waiguru further warned against the cover-up of the killings by police officers, terming the recent shooting of a street vendor and the killing of Albert Ojwang at the Central Police Station in Nairobi as unwarranted and blatant violations of the law.
Ambitious Murang'a man invents trailblazing fuel blends from plastic waste

1 week ago | the-star.co.ke | Alice Waithera

Donning a dust coat, Muritu ushers us into an office with a translucent roof for lighting. On the walls, are a number of awards he has scooped over the years. Outside, a factory with heaps of plastics, sits at the corner of the compound. Displaying an award he won last year from Kenya Bureau of Standards for the most innovative idea, the soft spoken man says he has a thing for providing solutions to challenges. The idea to produce fuel from plastics was birthed by the plastic waste menace, he says.
Colonial chief Karuri's family to hand over land to Catholic Church

1 week ago | the-star.co.ke | Alice Waithera

THE family of prominent Agikuyu paramount chief Karuri wa Gakure is processing a section of his ancestral land for donation to the Catholic Church in honour of his legacy. The chief, born in 1840, was appointed in the early 1900s during the early period of the British colonial administration in Kenya.
State to construct pharmaceuticals plant in Murang'a to cut imports

2 weeks ago | the-star.co.ke | Alice Waithera

President William Ruto examining beaded items during Murang'a Investors Conference./ALICE WAITHERAThe national government will establish a manufacturing plant that will reduce importation of pharmaceutical commodities in the country. The facility will be established in Murang'a County on the 1,300 acres of land ceded by Delmonte land buying company along the busy Thika-Kenol highway.
Green leaf tea prices drop by Sh8, auction tumbles on Sudan’s ban on Kenya

2 weeks ago | the-star.co.ke | Martin Mwita |Alice Waithera

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