An employee, who found hiding buckets which he had stolen from his employer has been fined Sh6,000 by a Thika court after pleading guilty to a charge of stealing by servant. Osmas Moguso was convicted and fined by Principal Magistrate M. Mutuku. In default, the accused will serve two months in jail. Prosecutor Shadrack Mbila said on April 25 at 6 am security guards led by their supervisor Martin Shikuku were on routine patrol when they spot...

MORE than 1,000 residents of Kimugandura Farm, which is at the centre of an ownership tussle between two parties in Laikipia East district, have vowed to resist a plan to evict them. In a meeting held yesterday at the 15,000 acres land, the residents led by their chairman Saituku ole Kaparo asked the government to stop harassing them, saying they will resist any attempts to evict them from the farm. “We have reliable information that som...

Police in Kigumo have rescued a taxi driver, who had been hijacked by four thugs who had earlier hired his vehicle to take them for “burial” in Muranga from Eastleigh in Nairobi. Kigumo police boss Saidi Muhammed said the thugs, who had posed as mourners hired the vehicle and on reaching Ngonda in Kigumo in Muranga county, they strangled the driver and took control of the vehicle. Suspicious members of the...

Two children were on Monday night burnt to death in house in Kijabe village in Lari district. Residents, who were were attracted by the smoke from the burning house, tried to save the sisters in vain. Lari police boss Johua Opiyo said efforts by neighbours to rescue Charity Ekono, 3, and her Agnes Engethe,8, from the fire were futile as the house had been locked from the inside. He said the sisters, who were alone at the time of the incide...