March 2012

[Nairobi Star] GOVERNMENT offices in Teso North, Bungoma South and Central districts have gone without electricity since last Thursday after it was disconnected over unpaid bills. The Kenya Power and Lightning Company took the move to disconnect power after the government delayed in remitting the payments.

[Nairobi Star] THREE judges have been appointed to hear an application by two lobby groups seeking the suspension of a decision of the High Court on the date of the General Election. Justice Riaga Omolo, the presiding judge of the Court of Appeal, further directed the case to be heard next week owing to its urgency and the public interest the case has generated. Judges Samuel Bosire, Martha Koome and Hannah Okwengu will hear the matter for two days on April 3 and 4, directed Justice Omolo. Judges will be breaking for Eas

[Nairobi Star] A section of Vihiga county ODM officials and four party sub-branches yesterday passed a vote of no-confidence on their chairman Kennedy Butiko. In a press statement, Emuhaya, Vihiga, Sabatia and Hamisi sub-branches said they have no confidence in Butiko's leadership. They claimed Butiko has absconded his duties and joined the campaign trail of one of the ODM presidential aspirants. Butiko, who hails from the deputy party leader Musalia Mudavadi's county, has openly declared support for Prime Minister Raila

[Nairobi Star] The intelligence chief risks jail if he fails to appear today before a parliamentary committee as ordered. Michael Gichangi, the Director General of the National Security Intelligence Service, has been ordered to appear before the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations at 2pm. The committee yesterday issued the summons for Gichangi to appear and warned that they have the powers to invoke Sections 18 and 23 of the National Assembly (Powers and Privileges) Act if he does not show up.