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New details emerge on Lamu attack

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Details of the Friday, January 7, bandit attack that saw four police officers in Lamu lose their lives after they were shot dead by suspected militants have emerged.

According to a police report seen by K24 Digital, the police Land Rover which had four GSU officers on board was the lead escort vehicle from Mpeketoni to Gamba when the fatal bandit attack happened.

“They had already escorted vehicles from Gamba to Mpeketoni and they were coming to pick other vehicles from Ndeu roadblock for onwards escort to Gamba. Their Land Cruiser which was in front, GK B 629Y was torched by the said bandits,” the police report read in part.

Police officers attached to Hindi Police Station rushed to the scene and found the Officer Commanding on the ground.

“It was established that the front escort vehicle belonging to GSU Kasaka Kairu Gk B 629Y came under bandits attack and all the four officers on board were fatally shot.

The other Land Cruiser which was behind the torched vehicle whose occupants were shot dead had six officers on board who have since been accounted for and are all safe.

“The other land cruiser which was behind GKB307U on board six officers fought through the ambush and are all accounted for and safe.

Police say the motive of the attack is yet to be established adding that bodies of the deceased officers were taken to Manda Operation Camp for airlifting to Nairobi.

“The wreckage of the vehicle has been towed to Hindi Police Station. More progress report to follow,” the report further revealed.

Speaking to the press, Lamu County commissioner Irungu Macharia said that police officers have been deployed in the vast Boni forest in search of the suspected militants.

“We are pursuing the suspects inside Boni forest but our scoop is also in other areas and we urge the residents to volunteer information that will lead to the arrest of the criminals since we are aware some of them may be hiding amongst the residents,” he said.

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Journalist Hassan Mugambi set to wed former video vixen Mwanaidi

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By Wanja Waweru

Hassan Mugambi, a reporter for Citizen TV, is getting hitched to Mwanaidi Shishy.

A celebration that the journalist will host will be attended by close relatives and friends.

Friends of Mugambi congratulated him on his impending nuptials on social media.

His colleague and fellow journalist Ayub Abdikadir sent him well wishes as he started his married life.

Former video vixen Mwanaidi now runs the Mama Nilishe restaurant in Kilimani, which serves Swahili food.

Mugambi is a well-known journalist who has won numerous honors over his career.

His career began at the Kibra radio station Pamoja FM, and it later moved to CGTN, formerly CCTV.

Later, he was hired by K24, a channel owned by Mediamax, before switching to Citizen TV in 2017.

Mugambi won the Outstanding Media Security Investigative Award for the year 2019.

He received praise from the Protective and Safety Association of Kenya (PROSAK) for his excellent and dependable reporting on security issues in the nation.

At the Nairobi Security Expo in 2023, he received the Security and Crime Reporter of the Year 2023 honor.

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Eric Omondi flies to London for lunch to prove a point to Moses Kuria

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By Wanja Waweru

The Trade Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria has received criticism from content creator and comedian Eric Omondi for admitting that he regretted supporting his tour to the United States seven years ago.

Eric, who has argued forcefully against the Finance Bill 2023, has gone to London “for lunch” to show Mr. Kuria that he can afford to pay for his travel expenses.

The comedian pleaded with the CS in a post on his Instagram account not to accept the planned taxation of content producers so that they may also travel in Business Class without receiving financial help from politics.

“After hearing Moses Kuria speak, I decided to take myself to London just for Lunch and also thank God for how far He’s brought us. Thank you bwana Kuria for sponsoring my tour seven years ago but please don’t tax content creators 15% so that they are able to tour on their own,” he said.

Mr. Kuria criticized Eric on live television on Wednesday at the Citizen TV-hosted Big Conversation debate for criticizing the government regarding the draft Bill.

He expressed sorrow over what he claimed to have funded Eric for a vacation to the US seven years prior, claiming that he might have instead had fun with the money.

“I have heard Eric Omondi claiming he is a youth. Seven years ago I used my own money to take him to America to expose him and right now, according to the way he is talking, I wished I used that money to party because it doesn’t seem like he learned anything from it,” Mr Kuria said from Belarus.

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Kakamega family demands justice after botched treatment leads to 3-year-old losing five fingers

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A family from Bukhaywa village, Lurambi Constituency, Kakamega county, is calling for justice after their three-year-old son’s right hand was amputated of all the fingers due to improper treatment.

“My son had a burn on his left hand and was in a stable condition when we took him to hospital, but because of the doctor’s negligence, all his right fingers were cut off and he is disabled now,” the victim’s father Mr Zephaniah Likavo said.

Winnie Auma, the mother of the victim, claimed that the nurse was an intern who gave her son an incorrect drug injection. When she witnessed how the son’s body responded, she reported the incident to the doctor, but nothing was done about it.

“My son was crying in pain and the colour of his hand changed. I wondered what was happening and reported to the doctor, but no action was taken. Instead, he said it was normal for such a reaction to happen,” she said

The family claims they received word shortly after that their son’s fingers would need to be amputated in order to stop an infection.

The management of the hospital refuted the accusations, claiming that the family had moved their son to a different facility where his fingers had been severed.

“We treated their son and there was a challenge in finding the vein in the hand, so it affected his fingers and later they wanted a transfer to another hospital for specialised treatment. That’s where they amputated the fingers,” the official said.

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