Mayor waves court card at Ngilu
BY CORRESPONDENT
Mombasa Mayor Ahmed Mohdhar has threatened to move to court over the appointment of the Mombasa Water and Sewerage Company Board.
Mohdhar said the new board that is scheduled to be inaugurated by the Water Minister Charity Ngilu on Friday does not enjoy the Mombasa Council’s support and cannot take [...]
Coast tourists increase by 30pc, PM says
BY EVELYN NJOROGE
The number of tourists visiting the Coastal region has risen by 30 percent since the return to normalcy following the post-election turmoil, government officials have said.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Wednesday that although the region was one of the areas that bore the brunt of the violence, [...]
Land tops Coast MPs wish-list for Kibaki
President Kibaki.
Coast MPs are preparing to welcome President Kibaki with a long list of past promises he has made for development of the region they say have not been fulfilled.
Top on the list is the long-festering land issue in the province, expansion of education opportunities and issues [...]
By Patrick Ochieng
Mombasa-Kenya
To Comrades of Ujamaa Center, Ujamaa Center regrets to announce the death of Ms. Christine Agalo wife of Center staff Sam Odero which occurred on August 21, 2008 at the MEWA Hospital Mombasa. She was taken ill by what doctors suspected to have been Menengitis.
The body is lying at th Pandya [...]
Raila promises new constitution
By Patrick Beja
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has assured Kenyans of a new constitution next year.
The PM said a draft constitution would be subjected to a referendum, similar to the November 2005 one, when Kenyans rejected the Wako draft.
“Kenya will go to the referendum next year leading to the delivery of a [...]
Police arrest six terror suspects
BY BERNARD MOMANYI
NAIROBI, August 5 - Six more suspects have been arrested and questioned as the hunt for the Al-Qaeda terror suspect Fazul Abdullah Mohammed intensified on Tuesday.
Two of them were arrested in Malindi on Monday while three others were picked up in Mombasa on Tuesday morning.
The sixth suspect was [...]
A police officer guards a house at Mimdan ,Malindi where two Al-Qaeda suspects were arrested yesterday. INSET: Terror suspect Fazul Abdalla Mohammed. [PHOTO: OMONDI ONYANGO/STANDARD]
A suspected Al-Qaeda mastermind and key suspect of the 1998 American Embassy bombing in Nairobi is in Kenya, but has eluded a police dragnet.
Fazul Abdullah Mohamed escaped arrest in Malindi [...]
Why MPs won’t enact new constitution within a year
By Peter Opiyo
Constitutional experts have warned Parliament is unlikely to endorse a new constitution within a year for fear of fresh elections.
The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) constitutional committee says a new constitution would also mean the end of the Grand Coalition Government.
(LSK Chairman Okongo Omogeni (centre) [...]
Orengo: Return land or go to jail
By Willis Oketch
Lands Minister James Orengo, has asked land grabbers to surrender public plots or risk prosecution.
Orengo, who was addressing Lamu residents, said grabbers of public land would not be spared when he implements the Ndung’u Land Commission Report.
“Some of these people have grabbed hospital land, school plots, [...]
Balala and Joho in epic battle for new king of Coast
By DAVID OKWEMBAH
In Summary
The battle for political supremacy in Mombasa, and by extension Coast Province, appears to have reached its peak with Kisauni MP Ali Hassan Joho and his Mvita counterpart Najib Balala feuding in public.
The two, once close allies but now bitter foes, [...]
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