Brenda Wanga
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Shakahola cult probe: Gov’t extends dusk-to-dawn curfew at Chakama Ranch for 30 more days
Interior CS Kindiki Kithure on Thursday said operations within the forest will continue until all victims are rescued.This as more mass graves were discovered, and the second phase of autopsies that began on Thursday shows starvation as the main cause of death.
KEBS MD Bernard Njiraini among 8 suspects charged with theft of toxic sugar
The eight including three government officers and five business people were charged with various crimes, including, conspiracy to commit a felony, abuse of office, stealing, interference with goods subject to customs control, and being in possession of restricted goods....
Suspected mastermind in sugar scandal arrested, to be arraigned today
Waithaka joins five other traders from Mombasa, Kajiado and Nairobi who will be facing charges relating to the theft and distribution of the contaminated sugar into the local market.
KEMSA scandal: Trail of documents reveals how Ksh.3.7B tender was bungled
The Ministry of Health's PS, KEMSA CEO and Chairman as well as the board were sent packing as the President begins implementing changes at the drugs agency.A look at the trail of documents on the bungled tender yields pointers on just why the purge spread from the authority to the parent m...
Inside the financial crisis at KEMSA that has caused shortage of crucial drugs, supplies
Documents in Citizen TV's possession show that the KEMSA stores are facing a stock out of 390 out of a possible 462 medical commodities, which include amongst others, painkillers, antibiotics and other commodities, including gloves, syringes, cotton wool, bandages plasters, pap smear kits and yellow...
Kenya risks losing Ksh.3.7 billion anti-Malaria nets over irregular procurement at KEMSA
The process handled by the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) has been flagged by the global fund as being irregular with the fund seeking to move the process to its own procurement.
Second phase of exhumation of bodies from Shakahola to kick off on Tuesday
The exhumations will start afresh as families of missing people continue to search and wait for the identification of the bodies so far retrieved from the forest.
Shakahola cult: Paul Mackenzie’s former follower reveals how emaciated members were strangled to death
This shocking new revelation comes from a former follower who says more than 1,500 people who trooped to Shakahola forest were not only conned to buy land but also brainswashed to fast to death.From the time news of the Shakahola cult deaths hit national headlines, one lingering question was left un...
Autopsies show that 4 more Shakahola victims were killed
The four, 3 children and an adult, were either hit by a blunt object or suffocated.This is according to the findings from 36 bodies that were examined by pathologists working at the Malindi sub-county mortuary.The results also show that 23 of the deceased died of starvation.
Four out of 30 Shakahola forest victims were murdered - Autopsy reveals
The post-mortem results of the four bodies revealed the cause of death as strangulation, smothering and blunt object trauma.The latest post-mortem results also show that the rest, save for six whose cause of death couldn't be determined, died of starvation.