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191 Counts of Murder, Over 400 Dead, and a Gap the Verdict Leaves Open

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Friends Doubted His Story, and That Is How Police Reportedly Came to Arrest a Machakos Student

The first doubts did not come from detectives. According to the report the blog cites, police arrested Chrispin Odhiambo Omondi, a fifth-year engineering student, after his account of discovering the body of Harriet Moraa Nyaboga raised questions among his friends. Harriet, a first-year Bachelor of Education student at Machakos University, was found dead inside a rented house in Katoloni estate, Machakos Town, which belonged to him. Machakos Sub-County Police Commander Emmanuel Okanda was cited as confirming the arrest. Investigators reportedly suspect that a disagreement between the couple may have played a part. Omondi is said to be held at Machakos GK Prison pending a mental assessment meant to establish his mental state while the legal process continues. That is where the account stops. The story says the precise circumstances of her death have not been independently established and that no final court determination has been provided. It does not say whether he has been charged, ta...

Dan Mackenzie Says He Got Out of Shakahola With Five Siblings, and the Story Never Says How

Six children leaving together is a different kind of escape from one person slipping away. Dan Mackenzie says that is what happened. According to the story, he got out of Shakahola alongside five of his siblings, and the story treats that as a significant part of his account. The escape is also what made the telling possible. The story says it marked a departure from the conditions he describes and gave him a chance to speak about what he says happened to them. Without it, there would be no account to report. Almost everything around it is missing. The story does not say when they left, how they got out, who helped them, where they went afterwards, or what has happened to the siblings since. It does not say whether the rest of the family also left. The father is not named, and no response from him or from authorities is reported. Mackenzie's description of his father and of the treatment he says the children faced are allegations from one person's recollection, and the story do...

Millie Odhiambo's Grandchildren Told Strangers at a Restaurant They Were Gen Z and Could Walk With Her

The part of Millie Odhiambo's Monday post that says more about her than the apology is the restaurant scene. According to the story, she wrote about a visit a few days earlier, when one of her grandchildren overheard people suggesting that public figures were increasingly being made to walk with Generation Z people for their safety. The children did not let it pass. They went over to the group and defended their right to accompany their grandmother, saying they were Gen Zs who could freely walk with her. The Suba North MP praised their answer and used the phrase "TIBIM" to show how amused she was. She then ended the post with a firm line against bullying, saying people should not be treated that way. The story does not say who the people in the restaurant were, which restaurant it was, or whether anyone replied to the children. It also doesn't say exactly what "such treatment" refers to. The comment about public figures needing Gen Z escorts appears to be a ...

Prosecution Says KSh25 Million Penalty Is Reason to Keep Wangare Behind Bars Before Sentencing

The defence told Anti-Corruption Magistrate Harrison Barasa that the accused could not be presented for sentencing because the trial court had acquitted them, so no conviction stood against the three. They also applied for the release of Wangare until the court gave directions. Prosecutor Monda opposed it. He argued that Wangare is a convicted person and that her money-laundering conviction carries a penalty of KSh25 million, which he said makes the offence serious. She should not, he submitted, be released on bail or bond before mitigation. On the wider objection, he said the High Court had allowed the State's application in its entirety and directed the accused to appear before the magistrate for mitigation. The ground for that position comes from Wednesday's High Court ruling by Justice Rose Ougo, which the story says upheld convictions against Waititu, his wife and their co-accused on other charges and overturned the trial court's acquittal on money-laundering charges i...

A Police Report and a Mortuary Letter Show What Is on Record in the Feruz Hussein Case

 Much of what has circulated about the death of 21-year-old Feruz Hussein comes from reports and allegations. The documents are firmer ground. The story says papers obtained by Citizen Digital, including a police report acknowledgement and a letter to a mortuary superintendent, show her death was logged as a suspected homicide. The matter was reported at Sunton Police Station in Kasarani Sub County on September 30, 2026, under Occurrence Book number 37. The mortuary letter states her remains were retrieved from a house in the Githurai Sunton area. It also shows the case was being handled as a police matter, with an autopsy anticipated to help establish how she died. Police are hunting a man named in the story as Nelson Ambia over the alleged killing, and detectives are trying to establish the sequence of events. He has not been arrested or charged, and nothing about his guilt has been tested in court. Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has announced a KSh50,000 reward for informati...

From Voice of Kenya to Three Decades at the SABC, Anderson Kalu Carried Kiswahili Across Borders

Anderson Kalu started in the 1980s as a news writer at the Voice of Kenya, the broadcaster that later became the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation. By 1989 he was a Senior Information Officer and Kiswahili news anchor at KBC, a job he held until April 1993. The story says his distinctive voice made him familiar to audiences who followed radio and television in the 1980s and 1990s. In June 1995 he moved to South Africa and joined the SABC. He spent the next three decades there as a Principal Announcer and Producer with the Radio External Service, producing and presenting news programmes in both English and Kiswahili. That means a Kenyan voice was carrying news in Kiswahili from Johannesburg for most of his working life. The Media Council of Kenya said in a statement issued on Monday that he made a significant contribution to broadcasting in Kenya and beyond as a news writer, anchor, announcer and producer. It also described him as a generous mentor who welcomed others into the newsroom and...