Vitalis Kimutai

Kenya, Nairobi

Journalist at Daily Nation

Kenyan Journalist

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Articles

Ruto: Beating me in 2027 polls will not be a walk in the park

1 week ago | nation.africa | Vitalis Kimutai

President William Ruto has warned his political rivals that beating him in the 2027 General Elections will be a tall order. Dr Ruto said opposition leaders have no alternative development agenda to offer Kenyans, just empty rhetoric. “I know I have a mandate from the people of Kenya and the verdict on my performance will come in 2027. I do not intend to fail that test. I must deliver and earn a second term in office. I am well-prepared for the duel ahead,” President Ruto said.
A pending car sale, suspect rape report and dead father of two

1 week ago | nation.africa | Vitalis Kimutai

Mr Wesley Kipkemoi Bett, a carpenter, left his home in Bomet on March 30 to his workshop for what would have been a routine trip, except it wasn’t on this fateful day. The 35-year-old father of two drove alone in his Toyota Probox from his Kagawet village home in Bomet Central Constituency to the workshop at Zebra Estate on the Bomet-Silibwet highway.
A couple’s drinking spree and twin murders. Did they slit their daughters’ throats?

1 week ago | nation.africa | Vitalis Kimutai

A couple in Bomet went on a drinking spree in the neighbourhood and returned home separately on Friday night. A few hours later, their two daughters; a seven-year-old and a one-and-half-year-old, lay dead in a pool of blood. Their throats had been slit, a horror scene that has shocked residents at Tachasis village, Konoin constituency. The bodies were found in the family kitchen, a few metres from the main house, which also has the couple’s bedroom.
Day angry Minister John Koech stormed ‘Nation’ offices to resign from Moi government

2 weeks ago | nation.africa | Vitalis Kimutai

On the afternoon of August 1, 1997, the Minister for the Office of the President John Kipsang Koech walked into the Nation Media Group’s Nakuru Bureau offices at CK Patel building, a decision that would forever change the trajectory of his political career. Dressed sharply in a suit and tie, the Chepalungu MP, who died on Tuesday April 8 after a long illness, asked for the man in charge.
Former Cabinet Minister John Koech dies aged 79

2 weeks ago | nation.africa | Vitalis Kimutai

Mr John Kipsang Koech, a former Cabinet Minister who served as Member of Parliament for Chepalungu constituency, has died after a long illness at the age of 79. He died at Nairobi Hospital, where he was receiving treatment and the body has been moved to Lee Funeral Home. In a short statement, the family announced that the former Minister had taken his final blow after an illness and that a comprehensive statement would be issued later.
Tea farmers boycott plucking in push for separation from KTDA

2 weeks ago | nation.africa | Vitalis Kimutai

Small-scale tea farmers in Bomet and Nakuru counties have boycotted plucking and supply of green leaf to two factories run by the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) in a push for operational and financial separation from parent company Kapkoros Tea Factory Plc. The boycott, which entered its seventh day on Monday, is the latest in a growing wave of demands by farmers for autonomy from the centralised KTDA model.
‘Please forgive me’: Police officer’s last words before wiping out his family, killing self

2 weeks ago | nation.africa | Vitalis Kimutai

About three weeks ago, Police Constable David Okebe Goga arrived at his home in Kagoga Village in Homa Bay County to be with his family. Most people in the village thought it was a regular break that police officers normally have. But Okebe had a different mission. According to police, he had returned home to end his life and the lives of his two children and a young in-law. Detectives say Okebe poisoned Triza Okebe, Hazad Okebe and Seth Odeka, his in-law, all aged between five and seven years.
I watched my son die: Survivors recount Kaplong crash horror

2 weeks ago | nation.africa | Vitalis Kimutai

When Festus Rotich, a 27-year-old father of one, bade his young family goodbye on Saturday, he did not know that it would be the last time they would be seeing him alive. Rotich, the driver of the lorry that was involved in an accident with a 14-seater matatu and a saloon car on Kaplong-Litein road, is among the 15 people who succumbed to injuries.
A murder confession: How detectives corned key suspect in Eva Ruto case

2 weeks ago | nation.africa | Vitalis Kimutai

A crashed mobile phone, a short text message, a wedding ring, a knife and a blood-stained towel are among key leads in the ongoing investigations into the murder of a businesswoman in Bomet. Used condoms by the bedside were also part of the forensic investigations into the gruesome murder of Eva Rachel Chepkemoi Ruto, a 48-year-old mother of five children and also a grandmother of five. Eva bled to death in her bed following the March 25 attack in which her throat was cut and chest stabbed.
15 killed, 14 injured in Kaplong-Kericho highway multiple car crash

2 weeks ago | nation.africa | Vitalis Kimutai

At least 15 people have died in a multiple-car crash on the Kaplong-Kericho highway on Saturday. Bomet County Traffic Enforcement Officer Amos Namasaka said 14 others sustained injuries. A spot check showed that six were admitted to St Clare's Kaplong Hospital, five to Tenwek Hospital and three to Litein AIC Hospital. "A total of 15 people have died, while 14 have been admitted to various hospitals in the county. The three vehicles were reduced to mangled wrecks," Mr Namasaka said.