Cracked walls, a fresh county-wide quarry crackdown and a decades-old family firm face renewed scrutiny over blasting, oversight and a missing weighbridge
A confidential intelligence dossier reviewed by Kenya Insights claims the SportPesa chief executive and sitting Kasarani MP paid in excess of Sh25 million for a stolen Safaricom subscriber database, then deployed it to micro-target voters in his 2022 parliamentary bid. The claim collides with the telecom’s own court record, which insists the SportPesa transaction collapsed before it was ever completed. Both cannot be fully true. This is what we found.
A major cybercrime operation in Nairobi has led to the arrest of 18 Chinese nationals after detectives dismantled what investigators believe was a sophisticated fraud workstation operating from a luxury apartment in the city’s Kilimani neighbourhood. The operation was conducted by officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) based at Kilimani Police Station, working […]
The Court Record Tells a Story of Institutions, not a single Personality
Malindi’s expatriate elite and coastal property circles are reeling after a Kenyan-Italian national long celebrated as a local pioneer and political hopeful was arraigned alongside a co-accused over a catastrophic fire that allegedly destroyed a rival investor’s Sh667 million luxury villa complex. Franco Esposito, widely known in Magarini and Malindi as Kasoso wa Baya, and […]
A Public Service Commission audit exposes ghost recruits and unqualified State Counsel inside the Attorney-General’s chambers. Court records, contempt findings and a forged-will scandal now paint a portrait of an office repeatedly caught operating outside the Constitution it exists to defend.
Nairobi City County has entered the 2026/2027 financial year without an approved budget after the County Assembly failed to pass the estimates before the June 30 deadline. The budget impasse comes amid claims by a source familiar with the negotiations that a section of Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) are demanding Sh10 million each […]
A motorist who paid a KSh 10,000 speeding fine through what he believed was NTSA’s official channel found his money deposited into a KCB account bearing a private individual’s name. Lawyer Donald Kipkorir’s public challenge has reopened questions a Nairobi court was already asking about the same payment architecture.
Forty-one buildings illegally piercing Wilson Airport’s protected airspace. A regulator whose officers were threatened at gunpoint. A city planning chief now facing criminal charges. And a government so captured by developer interests that it would rather reroute aircraft over a national park than flatten a single illegal floor. This is not an aviation story. It is a corruption story. And the crash it is building towards will be Kenya’s fault.
According to COFEK, more than 15 million Kenyans who participate in betting and gaming could be affected if questions surrounding the leadership of the regulator are left unresolved.
For three years Zipporah Tabu Obura has lived with the brutal reality that her son Kennedy Olilo Obura was found dead in a bathroom at a villa in Mvindeni, Diani, blood on the walls and floor, injuries to his chest and elbow. What was meant to be a routine trip to serve as best man […]
KPA records indicate that Somtrade Limited entered into a lease agreement on 21 November 2023 for Shade 2 on Title Number Mombasa/Block/1/492.
Fraudulently obtaining a Kenyan passport is a serious criminal offence carrying severe penalties.
