Author: Buzzroom Kenya

Police in Dagoretti are looking for a middle-aged man who took off with a mobile phone belonging to one of the officers who had arrested him on Thursday evening. It’s reported that the suspect, only identified as ‘Dogo’, believed to be behind multiple cases of petty theft in Kawangware and Satelite areas, together with his gang, had been arrested on Thursday by two police officers who were on patrol. “While he was being loaded into a police vehicle, he swiftly snatched a police phone and took off into the dark inside the sharks. No trace of him was found, as…

A businessman is pursuing Apple legally after his wife discovered ratchet messages he had sent sex workers, texts he says he is sure he deleted. He claims that Apple’s lack of transparency about the deleted messages has led to his wife filing for divorce. The middle-aged man from England, through his attorney, has explained that messages he had sent multiple sex-workers, which he thought he had deleted, were found by his wife on the family’s iMac computer. “If you are told a message is deleted, you are entitled to believe it’s deleted. My thoughts are that if I had been…

Self-taught cook Dennis Ombachi has denied being granted at least KSh3.2 million by Tiktok for his content creation skills, despite being listed among some 50 creators derived from around the world, highlighted by Tiktok in a recently released list, as changemakers who develop and create inspiring content on the platform. “This is fake news,” he says, jokingly adding that ‘the fabricated story is now making people who owe me not make plans of paying back my money.” A statement on the TikTok website, however, lists Ombachi as one of the beneficiaries of the TikTok Change Makers Grant, which aims at…

Kenya’s lakeside city, Kisumu, has been ranked top in a list of African cities that are unfavorable for startups and slow to adopt the startup trend, according to StartupBlink, a global startup ecosystem map and research centre. The report says the weak startup environment that exists in the listed urban locations is a major obstacle to achieving the vision of spearheading the continent’s economic change in innovation and opportunity. “Poor startup ecosystems can exasperate social and economic disparities owing to the fact that in this era, startups have been instrumental in addressing local issues and providing solutions based on what…

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Party has explained why it is streaming live Njambi Koikai’s memorial service, which is currently underway from the Nairobi Chapel. The party explains that this is meant to honour the media personality’s membership in ODM since its inception. “When the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) was formed, one of the admirers of its ideology was media personality and entertainer Njambi Koikai. She immediately became a member. In her honor, we shall stream live her memorial service from the Nairobi Chapel on Azimio TV,” the party’s secretariat says. Njambi will be laid to rest tomorrow, June 14,…

Detectives from the DCI have arrested two notorious suspects, Lavender Akinyi Ogilo and Vincent Odhiambo Otieno, believed to be behind a series of housebreaking incidents in Kiambu and Nairobi counties. The pair was arrested following housebreaking and theft incidents that took place on April 1 and 19, 2024, in Kitisuru. Police say they got access to a lush home by removing a window pane from the kitchen door and mastering the padlock. In the second incident at Oak Valley Apartments in Kileleshwa, they gained access to a house by mastering the lock of the main door. In both burglaries, the…

The government has stepped up efforts to recover at least KSh10 billion borrowed from Hustler the Fund, but is yet to be paid back. A report from the National Treasury says many Kenyans who borrowed money from the fund haven’t serviced their loans for over a year, thereby putting the sustainability of the Hustler Fund in doubt. Defaulters who have not serviced their Hustler Fund loans for over a year now face a penalty, according to notices being sent to them via text messages. The National Treasury says the high default rate is now the biggest challenge that has hit…

A Pakistani man is currently in a mental hospital after being stopped from setting up the first gay club in the country where homosexuality has been criminalized. The man, whose identity has not been released, explained that he filed an application with the deputy commissioner of Abbottabad to establish a gay club, which he tentatively called Lorenzo Gay Club. Further, while being dragged to the mental hospital, he kept shouting that he was setting up the club to struggle for the rights of the most neglected community in Pakistan. Authorities that arrested him say he is being detained at the…

Kenyans have resorted to publishing personal contacts of politicians on social media as a way of letting members of the public contact them and drop a message asking them to be against the proposed Finance Bill 2024. As of Thursday morning, thousands of contacts had been published on X by random users, including the phone numbers of the President, his deputy, governors, women representatives, and hundreds of Members of Parliament. The move, championed by X bigwig Amerix, is a way of stopping members of the National Assembly from passing the controversial Finance Bill 2024 and letting them know the proposed…

Investigative journalist John Allan Namu, the co-founder of exclusive investigative media house Africa Uncensored, has won the prestigious 2024 International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) Knight International Journalism Award, a recognition that celebrates the best public interest journalism and polished journalists globally. The other two winners announced together with Namu are Ukrainian investigative reporter Valeriya Yegoshyna and Rana Sabbagh, an investigative editor from Jordan. “These journalists stand out for their brave work exposing abuses of power in places where it is both highly challenging and dangerous. From corruption to war crimes, the outstanding journalism they have done has led to greater…