Author: Eagle Reporter

The body of a 13-year-old boy who was missing for four days was found in a thicket in Kamulu area, Nairobi. Police said they have no clue on the killers and motive. An investigation into the incident has been launched, police said. Jaylan Njoroge was found brutally murdered four days after his disappearance. His body was discarded in a thicket 200 meters from his grandmother’s home. The family of the slain boy is appealing to the police to expedite the investigations. Police visited the scene and moved the body to the mortuary pending autopsy. The motive of the February 17…

Three suspects, including two police officers were arrested for their alleged involvement in an attempted robbery with violence along the Githurai-Soweto railway line, Nairobi. The suspects were caught in the act on the night of February 17, 2025, police said. The officers are attached to the General Service Unit headquarters. They denied the claims. While on routine patrol, police officers stumbled upon the trio assaulting a man and attempting to rob him of his valuables. Acting swiftly, the patrol team intervened, apprehending the suspects and escorting them to Githurai Police Post. Police said they are investigating the incident with an…

Rapper A$AP Rocky has been found not guilty of firing a gun at a former friend. A jury in Los Angeles acquitted the musician, whose legal name is Rakim Mayers, on two felony assault charges that carried up to 24 years in prison. Terell Ephron claimed the Grammy-nominated hip-hop star opened fire at him during an argument on a Hollywood street on 6 November 2021, grazing his knuckles with one of the shots. Mr Mayers, who is also a fashion mogul and the longtime partner of pop star Rihanna, denied the charges, arguing that the weapon was a prop gun…

A U.S. national who ingested several pellets of Cocaine in his bid to traffic them from Alabama to Saudi Arabia is recovering at a Nairobi hospital under police watch, after developing serious abdominal complications. The suspect, Jarod Tyler Roberts, was on Sunday, February 16 taken to the hospital by his friend, and was admitted for examination after exhibiting symptoms of excessive drugging. A doctor at the hospital alerted anti-narcotics detectives from DCI Headquarters who visited the facility to witness an endoscopy process on the suspect. Three pellets were recovered from the suspect’s rectum, which tested positive for cocaine weighing 57.98g.…

The prosecution wants a bond given to a Somali national accused of personation be canceled. Abdirizak Mohammed Hassan is also accused of sending threats to the key witnesses and the complainant who he purports to be his mother. State prosecutor Kennedy Kamau Tuesday February 18 urged Kahawa Principal Magistrate David Kiage to cancel the bond terms of Abdirizak Mohammed Hassan for threatening the main witness and the complainant in the case of personation. While submitting to the court to consider his application, Kamau said the acts of the accused are a violation of the bond terms. “Your honour, the actions…

Two former Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) employees have been sentenced to pay a fine of Sh10 million each or serve nine years imprisonment. The two were sentenced alongside Joseph Mbugua Maina, a truck driver who was sentenced to pay a fine of Sh5.3 million or serve seven years imprisonment. Kisumu Law Courts Chief Magistrate D.O. Onyango sentenced Reuben Andolo Aseneka, a former loading Island operator and Mutai Micah, a former ICT employee after they were found guilty of conspiracy to commit a felony, theft of petroleum products, illegally tampering with the KPC fuel monitoring systems (Fuelfacs and Acculoads), unauthorized access…

Juja MP George Koimburi was Tuesday arrested by police in a probe into allegations he made. The MP was apprehended outside his home on Tuesday morning and taken to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters for questioning. Koimburi, who had previously claimed that the government spent some Sh13 billion campaigning for Raila Odinga in the African Union Commission (AUC) elections, was apprehended shortly after leaving his residence on Kenyatta Road in Juja. Speaking before his arrest, the MP claimed that two Subaru vehicles were stationed outside his house, and that DCI officers apprehended him before driving him to Kiambu…

Kibera High Court denied Sarah Wairimu Cohen bond after the prosecution opposed her release. Wairimu, the widow of the late Dutch tycoon Tob Cohen will be remanded at Langata women’s prison until two key witnesses testify. She is alleged to have murdered her husband on the July 19, 2019 in the Lower Kabete area within Nairobi County. In a ruling delivered on Tuesday by Lady Justice Diana Kavedza, the court ruled that the prosecution proved with sufficient evidence the likelihood of witness intimidation and interference. Justice Kavedza stated that Wairimu’s case is of public interest where a life was lost…

A team to recruit the new members of the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) was sworn into office with a call for integrity in the process. The commission chairman is also being sought. Their recruitment may take up to two months after which a recruitment drive for police will be announced. The former commissioners led by Eliud Kinuthia exited office after the expiry of their six-year term. A selection panel was on Monday February 17 sworn into office to start the process of recruiting the new commissioners. The seven-member panel comprises of Arhur Osiya (Executive office of the President), Moses Serem…

Anti-terrorism police in Mandera East arrested two suspected al Shabaab operatives, who had planned the abduction of a team of foreign nationals working at a sewer line construction site within Mandera township. Acting on intelligence, the ever agile sleuths swiftly arrested the prime suspect, Isaac Abdi Mohamed alias Kharan Abdi Hassan, 29, who had recently sneaked his way into the country from El-ade in Somalia and forged a number of documents to identify as a Kenyan. On keen scrutiny and thorough interrogation, it was discovered that the suspect was to pay Sh100,000 to his local associate, who would assist in…