Arm security guards to fight criminals 
BY JOSEPH KAMOTHO
Behind elaborately grilled windows, doors and gates reside the Kenyan population in perpetual fear of regular attacks sometimes in broad daylight. Ironically, even worship centres are not safe havens any more. No soul is spared these senseless attacks, robberies, raids, abductions, car jacking and burglaries.
Within a matter of [...]

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Karua raps Saitoti over death threats
 
BY LABAN WANAMBISI
Former Justice Minister Martha Karua is demanding thorough investigations into death threats against her and several other MPs thought to be government critics.
She wants the government to probe whether the chilling death-threat letter tabled in Parliament last week by Imenti Central MP Gitobu Imanyara was genuine.
She has also [...]

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UK pledges help in scandal probe
 
By OLIVER MUSEMBI
The United Kingdom on Tuesday pledged to help Kenya access information on the main actors in the multi-billion-shilling Anglo Leasing scandal.
British high commissioner Robert Macaire said his government would work closely with Kenyan officials in efforts to retrieve crucial documents that could unravel the mystery surrounding the scandal.
“We [...]

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Kenyan in US faces Sh160m fraud case
By JOHN NGIRACHU and Agencies
Ms Angella Muthoni Chegge-Kraszeski, 33, of Raleigh will stand trial in the United States over her part in a conspiracy that is said to have defrauded an auditor’s office of about $2 million (Sh160 million). The Kenyan woman has been indicted by a federal grand [...]

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Police rubbish Karua death threat claims
BY ANTHONY KAGIRI
Police have dismissed Gichugu MP Martha Karua’s life threat claims and accused her of using police as a ‘diversionary tactic to mask her political miseries.
Police Spokesman Eric Kiraithe in a statement said police were dismayed by Ms Karua’s allegations that they were behind propaganda of ‘perceived threats’ to [...]

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Sh9bn: Uhuru told he has Kibaki’s support
By JOHN NJAGI and BERNARD NAMUNANE
In Summary
Finance minister’s allies blame media and political enemies for budget fiasco
Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta was on Sunday assured that he had President Kibaki’s support as he launched a public fight-back over the “typing error” that resulted in a Sh9.2 billion discrepancy in Budget [...]

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Kenya Minister risks egg on the face
BY ERIC LATIFF
A coalition of civil society organisations has sustained pressure on Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta to explain the Sh9.6 billion discrepancy in the recently approved Supplementary Budget.
In a letter to the joint Parliamentary committees investigating the matter, the Partnership for Change lobby has dismissed Mr Kenyatta’s explanation that [...]

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Did this man lie?
By Standard Team
Could Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta have duped MPs into passing an extra Sh9 billion in the Supplementary Budget presented to Parliament last week?
This was the shocking question confronting Parliament yesterday, prompting the Speaker to order for a ministerial statement on Wednesday.
It all began when Imenti Central MP Gitobu Imanyara rose [...]

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Secrets of Mau Mau and oaths that bound community
Kassam Gicimu Njogu
Mau Mau rebellion was started to defeat the white man and reclaim land. Instead, brother turned against brother as the rebellion reached its peak in 1955. Described as a one-legged devil by the British, Kassam Gicimu Njogu was one of the leaders of the rebellion [...]

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Human rights activist Bantu Mwaura found dead
By Standard Reporter
Police are investigating the death of a human rights activist and university lecturer Bantu Mwaura, whose body was found outside his gate at Sunlight estate in Nairobi’s Lang’ata area, on Monday morning.   
Sources said that family members of Bantu, who was also a renowned thespian, director, poet and [...]

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