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4 days ago | 
nation.africa | Daniel Ogetta |Kamore Maina
At around 2:40pm on April 30, a call was made to the cellphone of one of the aides of MP Charles Ong’ondo Were. The aide, who was in the Parliament Buildings at the time, engaged in a conversation that lasted one minute and ten seconds. This was not the first time the caller had spoken to the MP’s aide. Two days before this call—now the subject of a DCI investigation following the MP’s murder—the same number had reached out to the same aide.
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1 week ago | 
taifaleo.nation.co.ke | Kamore Maina |Justus Ochieng'
JIONI ya Jumatano, wanaume wawili waliketi katika mkahawa ulioko barabara ya Kimathi jijini Nairobi wakila chakula cha mchana huku wakisubiri kwa hamu Spika wa Bunge la Taifa, Moses Wetang’ula, kufunga shughuli za bunge kwa siku hiyo. Wakenya wengi walikuwa wakifuatilia shughuli za bunge, wakimsikiliza kwa makini Bw Wetang’ula. Kwa wengi waliokuwa wakitazama, walikuwa wakisubiri kujua ikiwa Mswada wa Fedha wa mwaka 2025 ungetangazwa rasmi.
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1 week ago | 
nation.africa | Kamore Maina |Justus Ochieng'
What you need to know:Preliminary investigations indicate that the two men, with their accomplices, may have stalked their target for several days. Footage from multiple cameras in the city have captured the two suspect’s movements, giving the police crucial clues. Late afternoon on Wednesday, two men sat in a restaurant along Nairobi’s Kimathi Street, eating lunch and desperately waiting for National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula to close the day’s legislative business.
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1 month ago | 
nation.africa | Mwangi Muiruri |Kamore Maina
Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Tuesday reiterated allegations of a plot to assassinate him and asked Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja to reinstate his security. In a letter dated April 15, 2025, the former DP has cited incidents in which his meetings were marred with violence that he noted threatened his security, that of his family and supporters.
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1 month ago | 
nation.africa | Kamore Maina |Kevin Cheruiyot
At least five political allies of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua have been summoned by police over violence at a Mwiki church on Sunday, as PCEA elders blamed security authorities for failing to prevent the chaos. The summonses were issued after initial investigations linked Mr Gachagua’s entourage to a group of individuals that violently disrupted a church service and fundraising event.
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2 months ago | 
nation.africa | Brian Wasuna |Kamore Maina
Campbell Scott intended to mix business with pleasure, much like anyone else, when he arrived in Nairobi for a week-long trip on February 16, 2025. The plan was simple: Prepare for business meetings, then knock back a few cold beers. Launch a product his company, FICO, developed in conjunction with TransUnion, one of only three licensed credit reference bureaus in Kenya, and then go see some sights.
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2 months ago | 
nation.africa | Steve Otieno |Kamore Maina
Head and soft tissue injuries found on British national Campbell Scott’s body, which police initially linked to torture, are too minor to have caused his death, Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor has confirmed. A postmortem done on Scott’s body Thursday afternoon returned an inconclusive result, leading pathologists to take samples for further tests, including a toxicology screening, to determine the cause of death.
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2 months ago | 
nation.africa | Steve Otieno |Kamore Maina
A taxi driver and a waiter have been arrested in connection with the murder of British national Campbell Scott as police attempt to find out who may have wanted the 58-year-old dead, and why. The taxi driver and the waiter are among the last people who saw Campbell Scott alive before he vanished six days ago, and police believe that they hold crucial information that could lead to the Briton’s killers.
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
nation.africa | Kamore Maina |LILYS NJERU
What you need to know:A kitchen knife dropped on the roof of the hospital's first floor, which is believed to be the murder weapon, is among the evidence crime scene investigators have collected for fingerprint analysis. There is also the question of how the murder could have taken place in such a heavily guarded place, if the possibility of another suspect, who was neither a patient nor a member of the hospital staff, is to be believed.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
nation.africa | Brian Wasuna |Kamore Maina
It started as an act, then became a habit. That habit seems to have become character, and risks becoming destiny. While Ralph Waldo Emerson intended that evolution chain to inspire and better humanity, it has shown a morbid side, as Kenya grapples with a steep rise in murders targeting women. In the first 22 days of the year alone, at least 15 women have been murdered, in what seems to be a continuation of a trend for close to 10 years.
