Crime and Courts

Meru deputy governor Mutuma M'Ethingia is likely to be sworn into office on Monday unless ousted Governor Kawira Mwangaza secures orders staying a judgement of the high court. While the Assumption of the Office of Governor Act, 2019 provides for 14 days period, there is an argument that the legal timelines elapsed last year...

Cabinet Secretary for Security, Kipchumba Murkomen, has firmly rejected rumors of a conspiracy aimed at forcing Chief Justice Martha Koome out of office. Speaking during the commissioning of a new administrative unit at Abogeta Sub-County in Imenti South, Meru, Murkomen called the allegations "unfounded" and reiterated that no such plot exists. The event, which...

Kenya Methodist University (KEMU) students, a section of their lecturers and the community today held demos to protest against the rising cases of insecurity in the area. The protesters who walked from the university to Meru town claimed that in the recent past, some of them had lost valuables while walking to or from...

Chairman of Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA) Isaak Hassan has said they have so far investigated 34 cases which were prosecuted by the Director of Public Prosecutions. He said they have over 250 ongoing court cases across the country. He said they faced challenges investigating some cases...

A security guard who was found guilty of killing a human rights activist from Isiolo county has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Meru High court Presiding Judge Edward Murithi found Patrick Naweet guilty of  the offence of  murder contrary to section 203 and 204 of the penal code. "Pursuant...

A school night watchman was murdered in cold blood at Kathantatu Day secondary school in South Imenti constituency in Meru county when armed thugs raided the institution on Monday night. His colleague is fighting for his life at Consolata mission hospital, Nkubu where he was admitted following the strange accident.

The Chuka law court has sentenced a 58 year old man to life imprisonment for defiling a 12 year old child for a second time while out on a court bond. The convict first defiled the girl with special needs and was arrested before being released on bond.

Gakoromone Traders have issued a fourteen (14) days notice for Meru County security agencies and the County government to install floodlights in the market to curb escalating insecurity cases. They also want the blocked drainage unlocked, relocation of Kiolone Banana Market to where it was before, employment of more cleaners at the market, modern...

A sombre mood engulfed Runyenye village in Kiirua location, Buuri constituency in Meru county after two children drowned in a private dam in unclear circumstances. The two deceased children who are a boy and girl aged three and four years respectively  were playing together when the unfortunate incident occurred.  The incident...

Six students from Njia boys Secondary school, Igembe Central, have been arrested in connection to the dormitory fire tragedy. Meru County Commissioner Jacob Ouma who confirmed the incident, noted that the six were identified through CCTV cameras footage. "Through the CCTV cameras around the school, six suspects were identified and were...