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5 days ago | 
nation.africa | Brian Ocharo
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have won big after the High Court declared several provisions of the Public Benefit Organisations (PBO) Act, 2013, unconstitutional for violating various articles of the Kenyan Constitution. Justice Bahati Mwamuye ruled that requirements for mandatory re-registration and expansive disclosure obligations infringe on constitutional rights, including privacy, equality, and administrative justice.
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1 week ago | 
nation.africa | Brian Ocharo
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has intensified its focus on tracing and recovering assets acquired through corruption, revealing that it has so far reclaimed property worth Sh28 billion over the past five years. These assets were recovered from former public officials, among them senior Nairobi and Migori county employees, including ex-governor Okoth Obado.
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1 week ago | 
nation.africa | Brian Ocharo
A legal dispute at the High Court in Mombasa between a clearing and forwarding firm and a bank has highlighted how listing with the Credit Reference Bureau (CRB), whether inaccurate or justified, can hinder the growth of a thriving Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) and jeopardize its future.
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1 week ago | 
nation.africa | Brian Ocharo
“I am going to pick my phone.” These were Farida Kadzo Changawa’s last words to her aunt before she returned with a knife lodged in her neck, its blade exiting through her mouth. On the night of June 6 around 8pm Farida, her aunt Umazi Wambua, her mother Mary Mlongo and other family members were having dinner at their home in Madina, Kilifi County. A 21-year-old wine tapper, who had worked in the family’s coconut plantation, had joined them for the meal.
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1 week ago | 
nation.africa | Brian Ocharo
What you need to know:He argued that the MP’s unilateral decision to launch a construction project on the land without consulting or compensating the residents amounts to an abuse of power and a violation of their rights. “The plaintiffs are in fear of losing their ancestral homes due to the defendant’s actions,” reads part of the court documents.
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1 week ago | 
nation.africa | Brian Ocharo
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has revealed how ordinary soil and rocks were cunningly disguised as valuable tantalum-niobium ore and shipped to China in a multi-million-dollar fraud targeting a Chinese company. Testifying before a Mombasa court, Charles Osumba of DCI Operation Support Unit recounted how containers were cross-stuffed in Mombasa and shipped to China instead of the geniune minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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2 weeks ago | 
taifaleo.nation.co.ke | Brian Ocharo
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2 weeks ago | 
nation.africa | Brian Ocharo
President William Ruto has disclosed that the 2019 DusitD2 terror attack in Nairobi, in which 21 people were killed, was financed through banks in South Africa, Somalia, and Kenya. The president made the disclosure as he stressed the complex nature of transnational organised crimes facing Kenya and other nations. “In addition, financing, facilitation, and commission are trans boundary in nature.
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2 weeks ago | 
nation.africa | Brian Ocharo
Have you been cohabiting with your partner for over a decade without formalising the union, only for them to later dismiss your relationship as casual? The court may have your back. According to the High Court, cohabitation over such a prolonged period is sufficient to raise a presumption of marriage.
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2 weeks ago | 
nation.africa | Brian Ocharo
A petition seeking to protect the Bajuni community of Lamu from losing their ancestral land has been dismissed after the petitioner failed to comply with court directives. The Environment and Land Court in Malindi threw out the case filed by Mohamed Mbwana, the chairperson of the Shungwaya Welfare Association, citing the petitioner’s failure to follow clear instructions. The court said the lapse derailed the hearing and determination of the petition despite the serious issues it raised.
