Author: Buzzroom Kenya

Comedian and events host Fred Omondi, brother of renowned comedian and activist Eric Omondi, sadly passed on, early Saturday, a news that has left many devastated. BRK has established that Fred, on Friday night, hosted an event at Captains Lounge and Grill along Mombasa Road. He was headed home on a bodaboda in the wee hours of Saturday morning to prepare for another show in Meru at the BVB Lounge. The bodaboda Fred Omondi was using was hit by a speeding PSV vehicle belonging to Forward Sacco, the comedian landing on the tarmac. Primary witnesses say the PSV bus and…

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Renson Ingonga, has closed the six-year-old murder trial of former Migori Governor Okoth Obado in university student Sharon Otieno’s brutal murder. A total of 42 witnesses testified in the case that attracted national attention. Obado’s lawyers say following the closure of the trial, they will submit a ‘no case to answer’ bid in favour of the ex-governor as they believe he has no hand in the inhumane murder of pregnant Sharon Otieno back on September 3, 2018. “Your Ladyship, I will be making submissions for no case to answer in favour of Obado, then…

An early morning accident around Choma Choma Lounge in Kisii town has left at least eight people dead after the driver of a lorry lost control, veered off the highway, and rammed into the parking lot of the nightclub, killing at least four people on the spot. The fatal accident happened around 4AM, shortly after Ohangla star Prince Indah had just wrapped up his performance at the nightclub. A witness at the scene tells BRK that after losing control, the truck swept multiple vehicles that were still at Choma Choma Lounge’s parking area. Those killed include one of Prince Indah’s…

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…