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Scores hurt in clash over Kimilili dam

Scores of people were yesterday injured during demonstrations against the construction of a multi billion dam project In Tongaren in Kimilili. The demonstrators invaded a meeting organised by area MP...

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Milk man dies in ‘police chase’

A man died on the spot in Busia town yesterday after being hit by a speeding lorry allegedly being chased by traffic officers from Busia police station. According to eyewitnesses, the lorry from Uganda...

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Patron hangs himself in bar

The body of an unidentified man was on Sunday morning found hanging in the bathroom of Ugunja Inn bar in Siaya. The man is said to have arrived at the bar late in the evening and ordered a beer which...

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MP Ogindo asks for second term

Rangwe MP Martin Ogindo has asked Homa Bay town constituents to re-elect him so that he can complete the projects he initiated. Homa Bay town constituency has been carved out from the larger Rangwe...

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Jilted lover hangs self

A 20-year-old man from Okuleu village in Teso North committed suicide yesterday after he was booted by his girlfriend. Bernard Etyang was found hanging on a mango tree next to his house with the...

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Share seats fairly, Nyachae tells Kisii

FORMER cabinet minister Simeon Nyachae over the weekend advised leaders from Kisii and Nyamira counties to ensure that electoral seats are equitably distributed. Nyachae said the community will only...

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Youth rubbish URP-TNA deal

Mt Elgon youth leaders allied to Prime Minister Raila Odinga have termed the pre-election pact unveiled on Sunday by DPM Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto as "backward". A meeting of 200...

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Two claim vote-buying in Bobasi

Two aspirants from Bobasi constituency yesterday claimed that there is importation of voters from two wards from their constituency to the neighbouring Nyaribari Chache constituency Yobesh Onchiri and...

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DC praises Bunyala voter registration

BUNYALA district Commissioner Khalif Ali Abdi, has termed the voter registration exercise as being successful. At a press briefing in his office at the Bunyala district headquarters yesterday, the DC...

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Passengers stranded in Siaya strike

Passengers travelling from Siaya to Kisumu were yesterday stranded as matatu operators went on strike protesting the new traffic rules. Matatus plying the Kisumu-Siaya road opted to park their vehicles...

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KCPE questions failing blind candidates, Union says

As KCPE starts today, visually challenged candidates are crying foul over certain anomalies in setting of exam questions. Kenya Union of the Blind Chairman Upper Western Branch Alex Ekirapa, said the...

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ODM gains in backlash over Uhuru-Ruto deal

URP has suffered a setback in Teso with the defection of its parliamentary flag bearer to ODM. John Imoite who was the district chairman and Busia county treasurer said he left URP because of Ruto's...

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MPs praise TNA-URP pact

Two MPs from Murang’a have praised the union between Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto. Maragua MP Elias Mbau and his Kandara counterpart Maina Kamau said they...

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Killer takes own life

BY JANE MUGAMBIA 28-year-old man committed suicide by drinking a pesticide in Ndia after hacking to death a another man. The suspect cut the 40-year-old man on the head. He went into hiding when he was...

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Man jailed for having bhang

A man found with five rolls of bhang has been jailed for six months by a Thika court. Timothy Maina Kariuki, 19, was arrested by APs who were tipped off by informers on November 10 at Mugutha in Ruiru,...

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12 immigrants nabbed in Mwea expelled

SOME 12 Ethiopians have been repatriated to their country after they were arrested at Makutano road block on their way to Nairobi. Police boss Apollo Onyonyi said the 12 had been promised work as...

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Kenya Power loses eight transformers to vandals in a week

Kenya Power has raised the alarm over the vandalism of transformers in Murang’a. The institution said it has lost eight transformers in a week. Customer relations officer Jane Mwangi said the...

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IEBC won’t register prisoners as voters

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has not put in place measures to register prisoners as voters, a commissioner has said. Commissioner Thomas Letangule said although the more than...

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Nguyai under fire over June ‘dog vote’ slur

Ndaragwa MP Jeremiah Kioni has told Kikuyu MP Lewis Nguyai to apologise to the people of Nyandarua people for "people voting for dogs" remark he made in the county in June. Speaking during a UDF...

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Five killed in Limuru early morning crash

Five people yesterday morning died on the spot and 14 others were injured in a road accident at Kamirithu in Limuru on the Nairobi-Naivasha Highway. The accident involved two Nissan Matutus, a lorry...

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