On the radar: PSC shortlists 11 candidates for 2 slots as IEBC selection panel

Key activities and events lined up for today.

In Summary

• Ruto to commission a 160-bed capacity police hospital at the Border Patrol Unit campus in Kanyonyo, Kitui county.

• The police service used a welfare fund collected for almost a year to kick-start the hospital project.

The Parliamentary Service Commission has shortlisted  11 candidates for two slots on Independent Electoral and Boundaries selection panel.

In January, President William Ruto signed into law the IEBC Amendment Bill 2022 which guides how the seven-member panel shall be shared out among various stakeholders.

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The new-look selection panel shall include two nominees, one man and one woman from the PSC down from four in the repealed law.

Pokot South MP Pkosing banditry case

A case in which Pokot South MP Pkosing is seeking anticipatory bail over fear of imminent arrest arising from allegations of funding banditry in the North rift region is set to be heard today.

The court on Wednesday declined to grant him bail and directed him to serve the DPP and DCI with the court papers so that they can respond to the matter.

Ruto to open police hospital

President William Ruto to commission a 160-bed capacity police hospital at the Border Patrol Unit campus in Kanyonyo, Kitui county.

The police service used a welfare fund collected for almost a year to kick-start the hospital project.

Each junior officer contributed Sh50.

Homa Bay frozen account case

A case in which the High court froze the bank account of a firm associated with two employees of Homa Bay County proceeds on Thursday.

The accounts were frozen over suspicions of having illegally benefited from multimillion-shilling contracts of the devolved unit.

Reporting guidelines

Network Africa (ENA) in partnership with the Open Society Foundation and Kenya Editors’ Guild will hold a sensitisation meeting on streamlining reporting guidelines.

Labour CS meets MPs

National Assembly’s Committee on Diaspora Affairs and Migrant Workers meets Labour and Social Protection Cabinet Secretary Florence Bore over the protection of the rights and welfare of Kenyan migrant workers.

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