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Week 4 August 2006
• Airport: A Chinese firm received a contract worth KSh 2.6 billion in the ongoing airport expansion project.
• Airport: Kenya Revenue Authority has been compensated KSh 400,000 from insurance, after the illness and death of DJ the drug-spotting dog.
• Buruburu: A man claimed that police protected/shielded his landlord when the latter confiscated goods from his salon.
• Central Business District: A conman was arrested after trying to dupe sports minister Maina Kamanda of KSh 400,000, having impersonated Lamine Diack, the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federation) president, claiming that his ‘son’ had been kidnapped and needed a ransom.
• Central Business District: A man was pounced upon by robbers on Moi Avenue at around 7pm, leaving him wounded.
• Central Business District: A number of car importers mischievously evaded KSh 500 million in customs duty, such as by getting away with paying KSh 4000 when KSh 4 million was required. They are being traced by the KRA.
• Central Business District: A scheme was launched to eliminate 290 parking bays and turn them into pedestrian walkways, in a bid by NCC to pedestrianise the Central Business District.
• Central Business District: A whistleblower on the Charterhouse Bank saga (whereby he alleged that malpractices were going on in the bank) went missing after claiming that he was being followed.
• Central Business District: Gangsters on Mama Ngina Street robbed a woman during the day, after firing into the air, then the gangsters escaped.
• Central Business District: Kenya Polytechnic is to offer degree courses from next year.
• Central Business District: Kenya Youth Movement demonstrators at the site of the 1998 bomb blast called for the government to compensate victims of the blast.
• Central Business District: KSh 200,000 was stolen from a man’s socks, as he went to bank it, by gangsters who fired into the air.
• Central Business District: Owners of ‘informal’ schools are asking the government to intervene in preventing over-enthusiastic council askaris from harassing them.
• Central Business District: The teacher’s union (KNUT) met the education minister at Jogoo house to discuss salary increments. The current range is from KSh 7,358 per month for a P1 teacher to KSh 40,545 per month for a chief principal.
• Dandora: The NCC mayor said that the council will continue to dump rubbish at Dandora’s dumpsites until the council finds a more long-term solution.
• Doonholm: 4 gangsters were lynched by a mob that beat them to death after the gangsters broke into a house and stole several items.
• General Nairobi: 4000 non-teaching university staff that are union members threatened to strike over salary disputes.
• General Nairobi: A council of 20 elders has launched a bid to combat tribalism in Kenya.
• General Nairobi: MP Ndhiura Orwa Ojoda allegedly hid in a Nairobi hotel after being accused of punching a district officer.
• General Nairobi: Plain clothes police officers are said to be travelling in vehicles around Nairobi in order to catch out corrupt traffic police.
• Industrial Area: The death of two prisoners in the Industrial Area prison is yet to undergo a comprehensive investigation.
• Juja: A Narc-Kenya party official’s 17 year old daughter was kidnapped at night by unknown individuals.
• Kamukunji: A multi-party youth group vowed to drive out the ‘old guard’ by mobilising as many youth voters as possible in next year’s elections.
• Karen: Police shot dead a man caught stealing telephone cables worth thousands of shillings.
• Kibera: Barrack Obama, a US Senator of Kenyan origin, toured the slum of Kibera, amidst welcoming crowds and US/Kenyan police escorts.
• Kikuyu: Thugs stole Telkom cables and paralysed phone/internet use in 6 districts across the country.
• Lavington: Thieves broke into Local Government minister Muskari Kombo’s home, in spite of armed guards, taking several household goods.
• Nairobi-Mombasa highway: 11 people were killed and many were injured in a road crash involving wedding party guests as the speeding matatu carrying them crashed into a lorry. Guests had reportedly asked the matatu driver to slow down, to no avail.
• Nairobi-Nakuru highway: Passengers in a public service vehicle (PSV) were robbed of nearly KSh 100,000 by 6 thugs who posed as passengers; the thugs then escaped into a forest.
• Ngummo: KEMRI (the Kenya Medical Research Institute) held a meeting with herbalists to discuss ways of combating AIDS.
• Pangani: A robbery suspect was shot by police, along with three accomplices, but the latter escaped. The police found their toy pistol on Forest Road.
• Westlands: Gunmen dropped off a couple in Westlands after stealing their ATM cards and cash at gunpoint around Wilson Airport. The gunmen then shot a woman in a nearby house in her neck and hands; she was hospitalised.
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