COURT & LEGAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
Former Nyamira CEC Health Timothy Ombati got major relief after the high court suspended DCI letter summoning him over alleged loss of drugs in the county. Justice Wilfrida Okwany on Thursday allowed the application by Ombati seeking to stop the investigation agency from summoning him. “Leave to operate as stay of the decision/any action by […]
Rwandan investor Desire Muhinyuza who invested in an online marketplace that a Kenyan con was swindling has thanked the Kenyan government for the swift action in apprehending him. In his appreciation message after the arrest of Kirimi Koome who tried to swindle him off his business Stayonline Ltd which he gave him to register for […]
PS Julius Korir who was charged with assaulting his pregnant wife for serving him Githeri and Sukuma Wiki has been set free. Korir was charged with assaulting his wife Everline Koech in 2020 and causing her actual bodily harm. However, the magistrate Dolphin Alego says the prosecution did not prove their case sufficiently. “this court […]
Environment CS Soipan Tuya has moved to court seeking to get her estranged boyfriend to pay upkeep for their two kids aged nine and four years. In a petition filed at the magistrate court in Nairobi, Tuya has further accused her husband who walked away from the marriage of being abusive. Tuya says she cohabited […]
A woman who is at the centre of a divorce case with her millionaire husband has now come out to deny ever attempting to kill her mother- in- law who was staying with them. Scholastica Wamucie Kimani is in the middle of a nasty divorce case with her estranged husband Shakir Mohammed Merali who has […]
A Somali woman has moved to court seeking to stop her mother from forcefully marrying her off to a man she does not love. Amina Ali sheikh has sued her mother halima aden seeking for court protection against her and others who have been forcing her to get married. Through lawyer Yashim Butende Amina claims […]
The Kisii community has yet again been thrown into mourning following the death of Lawyer Musa Obare Juma barely two months after two other leaders died in separate road accident. The city lawyer died on September 27 after ordering for a cup of coffee at a Kilimani restaurant. It is said that Juma who has […]
The clerk of the Kirinyaga County Assembly Kamau Aidi has denied disobeying court order barring them from sitting to discuss MCA David Mathenge’s inciting remarks he made in March, Kamau told court that they were not aware that there was a court order when the powers and privileges committee sat to discuss MCA Mathenge. The […]
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has recovered 32 acres of Marine Reserve land in Chale Island Kwale county from nine alleged land grabbers. This is after the commission won a case it had lodged against the alleged grabbers including Swahili Beach Resort. The land valued at Sh 1.2 billion used to be used as […]
