COURT & LEGAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
The appeal court judges have urged Inspector General Douglas Kanja and DCI Mohammed Amin to locate those people that are still missing and believed to have been abducted. In the case, Kanja and Amin have appealed the ruling by Justice Chacha Mwita which reiterated that they must appear in court in the habeas corpus case […]
A witness in the case where former Murang’a governor Mwangi Wa Iria has been charged with corruption has defended the awarding of a media and publicity tender to a firm linked to Wa Iria’s wife. James Kamau Kairu who was a former procurement officer in Murang’a County told a Nairobi court that the procurement process […]
City Lawyer Danstan Omari has sued Kenya Commercial Bank for erroneously listing his name to CRB for defaulting a 63,000 loan when he does not have an account with them. In a defamation suit filed in court, Omari through lawyer Shadrack Wambui says the case was a result of the injurious falsehood arising from false […]
Joseph Sunday Otieno and Bryan Oyare, the two suspects accused of brutally murdering Kilifi IEBC Manager Aisha Abubakar in her home earlier this year, were arraigned before a Mombasa court today.
Kenya Kwanza has suffered a major setback after a three judge bench ruled that it is not the majority party in parliament as had been declared by Speaker Moses Wetangula. In a landmark ruling, the bench ruled that the Speaker had no justifiable basis for the reassignments and quashed the desicion dates 6th October 2022 […]
Several Matatu operators who are owners of Nganya’s in the city that have been impounded by NTSA have moved to court seeking to commit Director of Road Safety Andrew Kolkata to civil jail. Through lawyer Danstan Omari, the operators have filed contempt proceedings against NTSA arguing that they have refused to release the vehicles to […]
Last week, former Migori Governor Okoth Obado and two of his aides were found to have a case to answer in Sharon Otieno’s death but were all acquitted of the murder of her unborn baby and here is why. Justice Cecilia Githua in her ruling explained the reason for acquitting the three saying they ought […]
Former Internal Security Permanent Secretary Dave Munya Mwangi who was charged last year in Sh 350 M land fraud case now wants the court to bar the media from covering his case. On Thursday, Munya put up a spirited fight in a bid to gag the media from the case arguing that only state-owned media […]
There was an emotional moment in court when a man who was found guilty of acquiring an uncustomed Landcruiser broke down weeping and begging the court not to send him to jail. With tears flowing from his eyes a distraught Gibson Nyabera who was first charged in 2017 and has been in custody since then […]
