The flashy and well-known Public Service Vehicle (PSV) Moneyfest sparked widespread criticism after it was caught blatantly breaking traffic rules along Magadi Road heading toward Ongata Rongai.

Police have complained they are harassed by those close to the First Family whenever they take action on the matatus linked to them.

“They call to threaten you and demand the release of the vehicle detained. We are helpless as Kenyans suffer on these roads,” said one officer aware of the trend.

The matatu at times use roads like Harambee Avenue which is a no go zone for such vehicles.

And when police take action, they are reprimanded.

Videos and images circulating on social media show the vehicle overtaking dangerously, ignoring road regulations, and allowing passengers to ride unsafely on its rooftop.

Many Kenyans took to social media to voice their concerns and frustrations, with some tying the matatu’s behavior to its ownership and alleged connections to Kenya’s First Family.

Many believe that matatus like Moneyfest, regardless of their connections, should face the same consequences as any other vehicle breaking the law.

Police have promised to take action. Many Kenyans protested online when the video circulated.

Moneyfest is rumoured to be owned by someone closely linked to President William Ruto’s family, although official records remain unclear.

This connection has fueled accusations of impunity, with critics alleging that traffic police and NTSA officers turn a blind eye to its violations.

The matatu previously gained public attention when First Lady Rachel Ruto endorsed it as a symbol of youth empowerment.

She lauded the vehicle’s flashy design and message of hope, underscoring her belief in supporting innovative youth initiatives.

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He said tax matters are private and confidential and he did not know why his is being investigated in the media.

“I have always been ready and willing to lawfully pay all taxes. State agencies should not be weaponized to silence voices of truth and accountability.”

“This is a clear attempt to push me to my knees so that i agree to collaborate with corrupt leaders in the mismanagement of our country. Kenyans are very wise they can differentiate a genuine tax investigation and a political witchhunt. I will continue to speak truth to power without fear,” he said in a post on X.

He added he does not own Igrow Digital Enterprise.

“It is a youth group that we registered as schoolmates in 2014 when we were in the university. The intention of the youth group was to do the business of breeding dogs i.e german shepherd, Springer Spaniel, Japanese Spitz.”

“We were to train and sell the dogs. The business never started because we did not get the capital to start.  We hoped to get money from the government through the Youth Enterprise Fund but never got,” he added. The taxman is probing political activist Morara Kebaso over his alleged failure to file tax returns on Sh186 million income generated by five of his businesses since 2022.

According to KRA these companies include Backtent Security Limited, Morara Properties Limited (also known as Blacksmith Morara Limited), Luku Fashion, Morara Home Furniture and Igrow Digital Enterprise.

Morara was informed of the investigation through a notice from the taxman, which indicated that his businesses have either been reporting no income or failing to submit tax returns, despite owning properties, business ventures, and other assets.

Additionally, the taxman highlighted that money has been transferred to Morara’s personal bank account, as well as to the accounts of Morara Properties Limited and Morara Home Furniture since 2022. According to the KRA, Morara received the funds in his personal account, primarily through M-Pesa, with the money intended for covering costs related to furniture and interior fittings.

The authority further stated that Morara Properties and Morara Home Furniture also received payments via M-Pesa Paybill transactions.

Morara has expressed interest in politics and is likely to run for president in 2027. He has been building a political base he intends to use in the run up to the polls.

He has also been a government critic.

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Everline Nabalyo Loice alias Eva appeared before the Makadara Law Courts where she was charged, jointly with another not before court, with violently robbing Hakimo Muhidin Ali of a mobile phone valued at Sh30,000.

Further, the court heard that the accused was armed with an offensive weapon namely a hammer, which she used to hit at her target.

Nabalyo who was arrested at Kariokor in Nairobi while attempting to board a Kampala bound bus, was also charged, with another not before court, of stealing a laptop worth Sh110,000 and 22 grams of gold worth Sh210,000.

These items were properties of Abdirazak Jamaa Ali.

Nabalyo was denied bond following a request by the prosecution, which detailed several grounds to the court, including demonstrating that she is not a Kenyan national and hence a flight risk who has been on the run since she committed the office in November 1, 2024.

Hearing will commence in March 2025.

According to reports filed at Pangani Police Station, Nabalayo was in the house with a colleague housemaid when she intentionally opened the door, admitting an unknown assailant armed with a hammer.

In a shocking turn of events, the duo reportedly assaulted the other maid, leaving her for dead in the bathroom.

They then made off with a haul that included a gold set valued at Sh210,000, a Lenovo XY laptop worth Sh110,000, and an Infinix phone priced at Sh15,000.

After days of manhunt, detectives have finally apprehended Nabalayo at Kariokor while she was attempting to escape on a bus bound for Uganda.

The robbery captured on CCTV happened on November 1 at around 4:40pm when an individual armed with a hammer entered into Ushirika Tower in Eastleigh when the owner, a Somali man  was out with his children, while his wife was reported to be in India for medical treatment.

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In a public notice issued on January 6, 2025, by the Head of County Public Service, Godfrey Akumali, hawkers will now be confined to trading only in designated backstreets and lanes.

According to the notice, hawkers will only be permitted to operate from Monday to Saturday between 4:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Hawking will also be allowed exclusively on Sundays.

The designated areas include backstreets within the zone stretching from Tom Mboya Street to Kirinyaga Road.

The directive explicitly bans hawking on major roads and streets such as Moi Avenue, Haile Selassie Avenue, Kenneth Matiba Road, Latema Road, Ronald Ngala Street, Mfangano Street, Hakatu Road, and River Road.

“All walkways within the Central Business District are strictly for pedestrians and not for trading,” the notice stated.

The county government has warned that anyone found violating the new rules will face prosecution under Nairobi City County Government by-laws.

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Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba will preside over the event which had been delayed for weeks.

Officials at the ministry said all was set for the event.

He had announced in December 2024 that the results will be released in the second week of January 2025.

He explained there was no delay in the process of releasing the results.

“If any, the students are to report to universities and other colleges from June. There is no delay,” he said.

Kenya National Examination Council officials had met president William Ruto to brief him on the results before announcing they would release the same.

The exam began on October 28 with 965,501 candidates sitting the assessment across 10,755 exam centres across the country.

Ogamba said that the Ministry of Education recorded 621 examination malpractices after the exams, adding the cases were reported across 198 examination centres. The government had contracted 32,800 examiners this year, up from 29,876 in 2023, to ensure timely and accurate marking, adding that the marking of the KPSEA exams has already been completed.

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Police and witnesses said the boy and girl had been left at home with their grandmother when the incident happened on Wednesday.

Their mother at the time had gone to look for a school where they were supposed to join a playgroup.

The grandmother then left the minors in the house and went to the farm at around 3:00 pm only to hear a loud bang followed by smoke billowing from the house.

Neighbours rushed to the scene in effort to put off the fire and rescue the children in vain.

Firefighters from Kirinyaga and Embu also arrived to save the situation but the house had already been burnt down.

The remains were removed to the local mortuary pending investigations and autopsy, police said.

Elsewhere at Siyepei Bridge along Narok-Mai Mahiu highway, a rider and his passenger were killed in an accident.

This involved a lorry and a motorcycle.

According to police, it happened that both the truck and the motorcycle were heading toward Mai-Mahiu general direction of Narok.

Upon reaching Siyapei Bridge, the lorry driver tried to overtake the motorcycle but unfortunately pushed them and ran over the rider and one pillion passenger.

As a result of the accident, both the rider and the pillion passenger died on the spot.

The other passenger survived the accident, police said.

The bodies were removed to Narok County referral hospital mortuary pending postmortem.

The driver of the truck escaped after the accident and is still at large, police said.

And in Samburu, a fight between two cousins turned tragic when one of them was stabbed and killed.

The deceased identified as Lemama Lengarawet was stabbed at the back head, both hands and sustained deep cuts.

Police said he was rushed to Ndonyowasin dispensary for treatment where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Police officers visited the scene and recovered the murder weapon, which was a knife.

The body was moved to the mortuary for preservation pending autopsy. The assailant escaped the Tuesday incident and efforts to trace him are ongoing, police said.

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The man was stabbed and seriously wounded before he jumped from the balcony of his first-floor house for his safety.

He had engaged a woman believed to be his wife in a fight in their house on Wednesday morning before the woman chased her to the balcony while armed with a kitchen knife.

Witnesses said the man ran out screaming for help before he jumped to the ground floor and was later rushed to hospital with stab wounds.

Police said he was admitted to the Aga Khan Green Span Medical Center for attention.

It was then that the woman locked herself in the house and lit a fire, police said.

Neighbours raised an alarm and rushed there before helping to contain the spread of the fire.

Officials from the Nairobi Fire brigade came to the aid of the incident and the woman was rescued from therein unconscious, police said.

She was rushed to the Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital in unstable condition.

Property of unknown value was destroyed by the fire.

Police said they are waiting for the woman and man to recover for grilling to establish what motivated the incident.

Cases of murder and suicide have been on the rise amid campaigns to address them.

Meanwhile, three suicide incidents were reported to police separately.

The first incident happened in Siongiroi, Bomet County where a teacher at Irongo primary school in Nakuru County was found dead after a suicide mission.

He was identified as Kennedy Kipkemoi, 38.

Police said he hanged himself on a rooftop of a toilet.

The motive of the incident is yet to be known. The body was moved to the mortuary.

In Ntulele, Narok County, a decomposed body of one Jacob Mungai, 22 in a thicket after a suspected suicide.

Police said the deceased had threatened to die by suicide after his attempts to marry a neighbor were rejected.

The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations.

In Migori, a man who had gone missing was found dead in a forest in a suspected suicide incident.

Police said Dominic Osiro, 47 went missing on January 5 prompting a search, which led to the discovery of the body in Migori Nyasare forest with a rope on the neck hanging from a branch of a Cyprus tree.

The body had no physical injuries and no suicide note was found.

Police officers visited the scene and moved the body to Migori County Referral Hospital mortuary pending post-mortem and investigations.

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Agripina Khayesi, 29 was among more than a dozen workers at the construction site when the incident happened on Wednesday January 8 evening.

She was on the ground floor of the structure under construction when the piece of timber fell off and hit her on the head, witnesses said.

She was rushed to hospital where she succumbed due the head injuries.

Police visited the scene and the hospital before the body was moved to the mortuary.

The team said they are investigating the tragedy.

This is the latest such incident to happen in the sector.

Dozens of construction workers are annually killed at sites in accidents, which investigators say are unavoidable.

Some of the incidents are pending under probe while others have been solved through compensation.

Hundreds of workers flock to various sites for a living but some die or are injured at the places.

Officials say lack of protective gear and failure to follow procedures in the construction are the leading causes of the tragedies.

Corruption has also been cited as part of the reasons the accidents happen.

Last month, three people died after falling off from a house under construction in Nairobi’s Eastleigh area.

This increased to four, the number of those who died at the same site.

Officials said the incident is under probe. Most contractors in the area have been accused of failing to follow the rules in their work. This has led to such tragedies amid calls on authorities to take action to tame the trend.

Police, officials from the National Construction Authority and counties have been accused of being compromised hence the accidents.

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Lion Deh, who co-hosts the popular drive show ‘Mbusii na Lion Teke Teke’ alongside Mbusi, has been absent from the airwaves as he grieves this devastating loss.

The company human resource development shared the message in an internal communication.

“Please join us in comforting and standing with Cyrus Alexander Afune a.k.a Lion who is our Radio Presenter and Content Creator as he mourns the passing on of his son Lionman Ombete Afune,” the communication said.

The tragic news was also shared by Massawe Japanni, a colleague at Radio Jambo, who expressed her heartfelt condolences to Lion Deh and his family during her show.

Although Lion Deh has yet to publicly address the tragedy or disclose the cause of his child’s death, fans and colleagues have come together to support him during this difficult time.

Messages of sympathy and encouragement have flooded social media, demonstrating the deep connection the presenter has with his listeners.

Massawe also noted that Mbusi, Lion Deh’s long-time co-host and close friend, might also take time off to stand by his colleague during this period.

Lion Deh has built a remarkable career in Kenya’s reggae music and broadcasting industry, working with Mbusi for over a decade, starting from their time at Ghetto Radio.

The duo’s chemistry and engaging content have made their show a staple for reggae enthusiasts.

Despite multiple offers to move to other stations, Lion Deh has remained loyal to Radio Jambo, cementing his status as a respected figure in Kenya’s reggae scene.

Beyond radio, he is an entrepreneur and event organiser, co-founding Hakuna Mbrrrr Entertainment, which specialises in reggae-themed events.

This tragic loss follows health challenges Lion Deh faced in March 2022, when he was hospitalised due to severe anaemia.

His condition led to public appeals for blood donations, showcasing the immense goodwill and support he commands among fans

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According to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) these companies include Backtent Security Limited, Morara Properties Limited (also known as Blacksmith Morara Limited), Luku Fashion, Morara Home Furniture and Igrow Digital Enterprise.

Morara was informed of the investigation through a notice from the taxman, which indicated that his businesses have either been reporting no income or failing to submit tax returns, despite owning properties, business ventures, and other assets.

Additionally, the taxman highlighted that money has been transferred to Morara’s personal bank account, as well as to the accounts of Morara Properties Limited and Morara Home Furniture since 2022. According to the KRA, Morara received the funds in his personal account, primarily through M-Pesa, with the money intended for covering costs related to furniture and interior fittings.

The authority further stated that Morara Properties and Morara Home Furniture also received payments via M-Pesa Paybill transactions.

Morara has expressed interest in politics and is likely to run for president in 2027. He has been building a political base he intends to use in the run up to the polls.

He has also been a government critic

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