Police officer shoots dead colleague, turns gun on himself in love triangle

By Ian Omondi,

A police officer in Kirinyaga County shot and killed another officer before turning the gun on himself in what is suspected to have been a love triang...

Kirinyaga County. , Love Triangle , police officer

Two killed in grisly accident on Sagana-Karatina Road

By Johnson Muriithi,

Two people died in a grisly accident on the Sagana-Karatina Road in Kirinyaga County on Wednesday. One other person has been admitted to hospital i...

road accident

Two suspects likely died of suffocation at Wang’uru police station, not COVID-19: autopsy

By Boniface Thuku,

Two suspects who died at Wang'uru police station in Kirinyaga may have either suffocated due to overcrowding in the cells or been tortured to death, a...

inmates , Wang'uru

Kirinyaga prison warder accused of setting up men using his wife cornered

By Johnson Muriithi,

A prison warder escaped death narrowly from  angry members of public at Ngurubani market in Kirinyaga on Sunday. He had been caught in his house terr...

Two remandees dead after testing positive for COVID-19 in Kirinyaga, police say

By Johnson Muriithi,

Two remandees died on Sunday after testing positive for COVID-19 at the Wang'uru Police Station in Mwea, Kirinyaga County. Speaking to Citizen Digi...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , Kirinyaga County. , mwea , Wang'uru police station

How Kirinyaga woman who got a lift from strangers lost Ksh.200K in minutes

By Johnson Muriithi,

A Kirinyaga woman is in disbelief after she lost Ksh.200,000 to fraudsters at the Ngurubani Trading Centre within a record 3 minutes. A 45-year-old...

conman , robbery

33 worshippers nabbed in Kirinyaga resist arrest demanding bible verse forbidding gatherings

By Johnson Muriithi,

Police in Kirinyaga county have arrested a pastor and 32 congregants at Ngurubani market in Mwea-East for failing to adhere to the government's direct...

coronavirus , Kirinyaga

Bodies of two unidentified men found floating at a river in Kirinyaga

By Johnson Muriithi,

Residents of Mururi and Difathas villages in Mwea on Thursday woke up to news that bodies of two men had been found floating in river Nyamindi along t...

River Nyamindi

Man arrested for allegedly kidnapping two girls in Kirinyaga

By Johnson Muriithi,

Police officers in Mwea, Kirinyaga County, are holding a middle-aged man accused of kidnapping two girls. The suspect was arrested on Saturday afte...

Kidnap , Kirinyaga County. , mwea

Limousine hired for Ksh.200K crashes while transporting bride to wedding reception

By Johnson Muriithi,

A flashy limousine hired to transport a bride to her wedding reception was involved in a road accident on the Mwea-Embu road on Saturday, thereby dela...

Kirinyaga County. , Limousine , wedding

Kirinyaga: Father reports 25yr-old son to police for growing bhang in his house

By Johnson Muriithi,

Police in Kirinyaga County have launched a manhunt for a 25-year-old man who was discovered to have been growing bhang inside his house. According ...

bhang

Decomposing body of Kirinyaga police officer found in friend’s house

By Johnson Muriithi,

Kirinyaga police have launched a probe into an incident where the decomposing body of an officer was discovered at a house in Mwea. According to ar...

kirinyaga police

Man commits suicide at Catholic church in Kirinyaga

By Johnson Muriithi,

A Sunday service at Nyangati St. John Catholic church in Kutus, Kirinyaga County was briefly disrupted after a 26-year-old man committed suicide withi...

24-year-old university drop-out arrested for farming bhang

By Johnson Muriithi,

A 24-year-old man was on Wednesday arrested for cultivating and being possession of bhang in Mwea East, Kirinyaga County. Jackson Kariuki, who is r...

Kirinyaga

Two-year-old boy killed in accident involving Kirinyaga County Gov’t vehicle

By Johnson Muriithi,

A two-year-old boy died on Wednesday in a road accident at Kimbimbi Trading Centre along Mwea-Embu Road in Kirinyaga County. The boy together with ...

Kirinyaga County.

Man who allegedly killed ex-wife’s lover surrenders, says it was his cousin

By Johnson Muriithi,

A man accused of killing his ex-wife's lover has surrendered himself to the police in Kirinyaga. Simon Gitari, 40, took himself to Wang'uru Police ...

ex-wife's lover , Kirinyaga , Wang'uru police station

Suspect’s mum lynched after Kirinyaga wife mutilated in horror attack

By Johnson Muriithi,

Residents of Jerusalem village in Kirinyaga County have lynched the mother to the man alleged to have mutilated his wife. They stoned the 50-year-o...

Hands chopped , marriage wrangles , mutilated body of student found , Woman Mutilated

Prison warder in Kirinyaga Deputy Governor video arrested

By Johnson Muriithi,

A prison warder based at Nyandarua prisons has been arrested in connection to Kirinyaga Deputy Governor Peter Ndambiri's explicit viral video. The ...

Kirinyaga factory closed down over counterfeit products

By Johnson Muriithi,

A factory in Kirinyaga County has been shut down for manufacturing counterfeit products. According to County Commissioner Mohammed Birik, the items...

Anti-Counterfeit Agency , counterfeits , Kirinyaga , Mohammed Birik , NACADA

Two women arrested for ‘killing’ seven-month old

By Johnson Muriithi,

Two women were on Wednesday, January 26 arrested in Ngurubani area, Kirinyaga County for allegedly killing a seven-month-old baby and dumping her in a...

IDs held by bar owners in Kirinyaga , Women arrested