A traffic police officer was killed in a hit-and-run accident in the Makadara area of Nairobi, Kenya, as 21 staff houses were razed to the ground by fire at the Kerugoya Prison in Kirinyaga County, leaving officers without their belongings. Corporal Joyce Muthoni Mwicigi, Service Number 69164, died from her injuries at Nairobi West Hospital
A row between the burial committee and the widower of a 38-year-old woman delayed her burial for several hours and necessitated its conduct in darkness against tradition in Kamiigua Village, Kirinyaga County. Tabitha Muthoni had been scheduled for interment in the afternoon, but was eventually buried around 7 p.m. After her husband, John Bundi, and
Brian Macharia, a worker at the Mwea Irrigation Scheme, appeared before Principal Magistrate Martha Opanga after being caught with nine and a half rolls of cannabis sativa (bhang) valued at Ksh960. Appearing before Wang’uru principal magistrate Martha Opanga, Brian told the court that the drug enables him chase away birds in Mwea rice farms as