Ruto's strategists in crash, Ngiritas lose assets, Woman’s body released: Your Breakfast Briefing

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A Kenyan doctor in Cuba committed suicide because of depression, the Star has established. Hamisi Ali Juma was found dead on Sunday.

He was among a team of 50 medics sent to Cuba under government sponsorship to study Family Medicine in the framework of an MoU between Kenya and the Caribbean nation. About 100 Cuban doctors are working in Kenya.

Here are the other stories making headlines in the Star this morning.

American chopper crash victims were Ruto's 2022 strategists

The four Americans who perished in the Turkana chopper crash were veteran political consultants alleged to have been flown to Kenya to begin setting up Deputy President William Ruto’s 2022 president campaign.

The four, alongside pilot Mario Magonga who frequently flew the DP, died near Lobolo in Central Island National Park, Turkana, at dusk, on March 3.

Body of 89-year-old woman to be buried after five years

After being in the mortuary for five years, the body of an 89-year-old woman will now be buried after a court order.

Members of her family have been quarrelling over who should bury her after it emerged that some of them and a stranger plotted her death to inherit a 1,000-acre property.

Chief magistrate Heston Nyaga ruled that the woman died of natural causes and was not murdered as alleged by some relatives.

Ruto: Government to spend Sh14.4 billion on drought

The government will this week release Sh 14.4 billion to mitigate the effects of drought in 13 counties, Deputy President William Ruto announced on Monday.

Ruto said Sh2 billion will be used to purchase relief food, truck water and rehabilitate boreholes. Ministries of Agriculture, Devolution and Water, whose Cabinet Secretaries he met, will be in charge.

Court orders Ngritas' assets forfeited to state in NYS scam

The Assets Recovery Agency will take possession of five properties and three motor vehicles owned by the Ngirita family facing charges of defrauding the National Youth Service of millions of shillings.

The application is premised on DCI investigations by the DCI into the theft and fraud of public funds amounting Sh467million.