Author: Eagle Reporter

A Nairobi Milimani Court has condemned the detention of individuals accused of minor offenses. This after comedian Eric Omondi was arraigned on Monday after being in custody the whole weekend. Omondi was charged with creating a disturbance likely to cause a breach of peace after allegedly blocking vehicles and pouring kales (sukuma wiki) on Parliament Road in Starehe Sub-County. Senior Principal Magistrate Benmark Ikhubi, criticized law enforcement agencies for detaining suspects in misdemeanor cases unnecessarily. “In such offenses, you don’t need to keep somebody in custody for a whole weekend, ”l said Ikhubi. “Even the law provides that the court…

A five-year-old girl drowned in a swimming pool while she was playing with her friends at a hotel in Nyali, Mombasa. Alby Okeyo was with her friends on Saturday morning when the incident happened at the Sanana Hotel in Nyali, Mombasa. The minor was accompanied by her aunt at the hotel when she drowned. The woman told police the child had drifted from the shallow to the deep end where she drowned. Witnesses said an alarm was raised and the pool attendant dived in and rescued the victim. She was rushed to Premier Hospital Nyali where she succumbed while being…

A man killed his wife before dying by suicide in Karinde area, Kiambu County. The man spared their one year old child who was found playing next to the decomposing body of the mother long after the incident had happened on Sunday November 17. The emaciated child was found playing next to his mother’s body hours after she had died in a house in Karinde area, police said. The mother is believed to have been killed by the boy’s father who later died by suicide. Both bodies were Sunday November 17 evening discovered in the house long after the incident…

A man is on the run after he allegedly killed his four-year-old boy in a village in Homabay County. Detectives said they are looking for the suspect who is linked to the brutal murder of a minor in Maguti village, Kendubay, Homabay County. The man aged 24 is suspected of having killed the boy in their house on Saturday November 16 night before wrapping his body in a blanket and escaped the scene, police said. The mother of the child told police she had arrived home late on Saturday and noticed bloodstains in her house. The couple with their three…

A couple was arrested after a kidnap claim was reported to police in a love triangle saga in Nairobi. This is a new twist in the saga that had earlier been reported as a kidnap claim sending police to a search mission. It has since been established the saga involved a couple and a boyfriend to the woman. The boyfriend lives in Nairobi while the woman and her husband or the father to her two children live in Narok. According to police, the sage started when on November 9, 2024, a report of kidnapping was made at Kitsuru Police Station…

President William Ruto appointed former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero as Kenya National Trading Cooperation chairperson despite him having pending criminal charges. He revoked the appointment of Hussein Tene. KNCTC has been embroiled in corruption allegations over procurement of food and other stuff that left the former CEO Pamela Mutua in court. Kidero has pending cases in court. Ruto also appointed Mark Lomunokol as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Sports Kenya, Nuh Nasir Abdi as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Kenya Animal Genetic Resources Centre as he revoked the appointment of Victor Kioko Munyaka…

Azimio leader Raila Odinga Friday condemned Members of Parliament for attempting to get powers to determine the revenue allocation shared to counties through a bill tabled before the House. At a press briefing in Nairobi, Raila explained that a standoff is currently in play between the National Assembly and the Senate due to the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill, 2024. The bill, sponsored by Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro, seeks to provide for equitable revenue sharing among the national and county governments. The opposition leader pointed out that the MPs want the current amount shared to counties to be lowered, arguing…

A Nakuru High Court sentenced a man to 28 28 years in prison as an accessory after the fact to murder. Evance Kebwaro Michori was sentenced on November 14. Michori, one of six suspects implicated in a series of murders in the Mawanga area of Bahati Sub-County, Nakuru County, on June 21, 2022, will testify as a prosecution witness against the other five defendants. The murders, which took place on June 21, 2022, in Mawanga, Bahati, prompted an extensive investigation, leading to the arrest of six suspects. On August 2, 2022, the six were formally charged with four counts of…

A boy, aged 11 was shot and seriously wounded by a gun holder who was chasing suspected thugs in Nairobi’s Kwangarea area. The victim was a bystander at the time of the incident. He was hit in the cheek and attended to in hospital in stable condition. The businessman identified as James Kamau, 55 who is a licensed gun holder told police he was Thursday November 14 night at his general merchants shop in the area when a group of three men confronted him. He said the men were armed with metal bars and wanted to steal meter boxes that…

An electrician was electrocuted while fixing cables at a private residence in Nairobi’s Muthaiga area. Police said Wilson Wambui had been contracted for wiring purposes at the house when he went missing. He had gone to the ceiling where he traced the problem and was busy fixing the same when he was electrocuted. This is after he touched a naked wire, police said. the man who contracted him said he waited for him to come out and give out the report on the progress he had made in vain. He was not answering to his calls, which prompted the foreman…