COURT & LEGAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
A Kericho high court on Monday suspended swearing in of KTDA Director John Chebochok pending ruling of case filed by lobby groups challenging his election over his alleged sexual harassment expose by BBC. Chebochok was elected the Director of Toror Tea Factory but lobby groups have challenged it. “That in the meantime the AGM scheduled […]
A fake car city dealer was on Thursday charged before a Nairobi court with fraudulently obtaining Mitsubishi Pajero car valued at Sh 2.5 M. Clinton Wambu Githinji appeared before Milimani Law Courts Magistrate Dolphina Alego where he denied the charges. It was alleged that on or about July 24, 2024 he fraudulently misrepresented himself as […]
Three directors of Tareef Enterprises Ali Sheikh Hassan, Ahmed Mohamed Karshf and Abdulaziz Mohamed Karshf were charged with obtaining cement, bitumen and paraffin valued at Sh 7.8 million. It is alleged that on diverse dates between January 2019 and December 2020 they fraudulently obtained the money from John Mwaniki Kiarie by falsely pretending they were […]
The government has suffered yet another setback after the high court annulled the government’s decision to channel all advertisements exclusively through the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) is unconstitutional. Justice Lawrence Mugambi on Thursday quashed a directive issued by ICT Principal Secretary Edward Kisiang’ani in March last year, which required all government ministries, state agencies, independent […]
The feud between city lawyers Danstan Omari and Nelson Havi is far from over as it now spills over to the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC). This is after Omari wrote a letter to NCIC seeking action to be taken against Havi for tweeting about Kisii lawyers, saying it was incitement and hate speech. […]
A security guard who was killed alongside his Dutch employer, Rowenhorst Herman, allegedly by hitmen hired by his Kenyan wife, had only worked in the home for five days. A new witness, Khamis Bambo, who was Herman’s caretaker, told a Mombasa High Court judge, Wendy Micheni, that the late Evans Pole Bokoro had been employed […]
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has for the second time made an application to defer plea taking against two senior police officers facing allegations of harassment and Torture against a woman. The two police officers Rebecca Njeri Muraya and Abdisalam Ahmed were set to answer to charges of alleged Torture and ordering […]
The case against a University student who posted an image of a funeral procession depicting president Ruto with misleading captions will now proceed to full hearing. This is after a Nairobi court ordered that David Oaga Mokaya case will proceed to full trial after DPP declined to withdraw charges of publishing false information and sharing […]
WA man who allegedly obtained Sh 1.6 M by falsely pretending that he would distribute liquor at the Department of Defence (D.O.D) has been charged in court. Brian Birongo Motanya was arraigned before Milimani Magistrate Benmark Ekhubi and denied that on diverse dates between November 2022 and January 2023, he fraudulently obtained Ksh 1, 670,000. […]
The Nyeri Environment and Land Court has ruled that it has a jurisdiction to hear and determine a case challenging the move by the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) to build a 52 KM road passing through Aberdare National Park. The three judge bench dismissed the preliminary objection by the state saying it was not […]
