Articles by Johnson Muriithi

Police officer arrested over prisoners’ daring escape from cell in Kirinyaga

1719, February 15, 2020 (EAT)

A police officer has been arrested over the suspicion of aiding four suspects who escaped from the Sagana Police station in Kirinyaga on Saturday morn...

Kirinyaga Prison break: Four suspects escape cell using a hacksaw

1427, February 17, 2020 (EAT)

Police in Kirinyaga County are pursuing four robbery with violence suspects who escaped from the Sagana police station at 3a.m on Friday. According...

Bodies of tomato traders who drowned in Masinga Dam retrieved

1745, January 26, 2020 (EAT)

The bodies of three tomato traders who drowned as they were crossing Masinga Dam on Thursday have all been retrieved. The three deceased traders an...

Kirinyaga: 62-year-old watchman kills self after he was forced to pay stolen property

1748, January 18, 2020 (EAT)

Police in Kirinyaga county are investigating an incident in which a 62-year-old watchman who went missing on Thursday was found dangling from avocado ...

29-year-old woman kills drunk husband using socks

2112, January 15, 2020 (EAT)

A 29-year-old woman was on Tuesday arrested and detained at Kianyaga Police Station in Gichugu, Kirinyaga County, for allegedly killing her drunk husb...

Kirinyaga County jubilant over Kiunjuri ouster

725, January 15, 2020 (EAT)

Led by their deputy Governor Peter Ndambiri, residents of Kirinyaga county have heaped praise on President Kenyatta for CS Kiunjuri's ouster. The c...

‘Those are grasshoppers’: Kirinyaga County Gov’t rubbishes claims of locust invasion

2106, January 14, 2020 (EAT)

Kirinyaga County government has dismissed reports that insects recently spotted in the region are locusts. According to the Governor Anne Waiguru-l...

Panic in Kirinyaga as locusts spotted

1826, January 13, 2020 (EAT)

Panic has now gripped farmers in Kirinyaga County after a swarm of locusts were on Sunday spotted in Mwea. Isaac Ndung’u, one of the farmers, was...

Man arrested for allegedly kidnapping two girls in Kirinyaga

1432, January 6, 2020 (EAT)

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

Missing Kirinyaga man found dead at businessman’s home

902, January 6, 2020 (EAT)

Police in Kirinyaga County are investigating circumstances under which a 42-year-old man was found dead at the home of a businessman at Mirichi sub-lo...

Kirinyaga Jubilee leaders tell off MP Alice Wahome over Uhuru-Raila rant

1734, January 4, 2020 (EAT)

A section of Jubilee Party leaders from Kirinyaga County in Central Kenya have come out to defend President Uhuru Kenyatta from recent attacks by Kand...

A Prado, 13 Ethiopians and bhang: Police chase ends up in Kirinyaga

1351, January 3, 2020 (EAT)

13 Ethiopians were intercepted on Thursday evening onboard a Prado vehicle in Kirinyaga. Reports indicate that Sagana traffic police officers notic...

Kirinyaga: Man kills himself in hospital after chopping off his hand at home

1931, January 2, 2020 (EAT)

A 40-year-old man committed suicide on Thursday in a hospital ward where he had been admitted after chopping off his hand. Confirming the bizarre i...

Man, 30, arrested for allegedly forcing 2-year-old boy to drink beer

1328, December 27, 2019 (EAT)

Police in Kirinyaga have arrested a 30-year-old man who allegedly forced a 2-year-old boy to drink beer during Christmas. Nguka location chief Davi...

Two students killed after motorbike rams landcruiser in Kirinyaga

1230, December 24, 2019 (EAT)

Mourning has gripped Kiamuthambi Village in Kirinyaga Central after students died in a motorbike accident. One was a form three student while the s...

Kirinyaga: 700,000 papers used for rolling bhang recovered at MCA’s shop

1842, December 22, 2019 (EAT)

Sleuths in Kirinyaga County are probing an incident where two cartons of paper used for rolling bhang were found within Kabare Ward MCA's premises in ...

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

1722, December 21, 2019 (EAT)

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...

Policewoman stabbed to death by husband before he committed suicide

1855, December 20, 2019 (EAT)

Residents of Kianyaga Trading Centre in Gichugu Constituency, Kirinyaga County, were left reeling in shock on Friday after a policewoman was killed by...

Kirinyaga County official resigns after warning letter from Waiguru

1326, December 18, 2019 (EAT)

Lynette Wanjiru Njeru has resigned: she was a County Executive Committee member for Gender and Youth in Kirinyaga County. Njeru had been appointed ...

Kirinyaga: Man stabs brother to death for insulting him

1840, December 15, 2019 (EAT)

Police in Kirinyaga County have launched a hunt for a 39-year-old man who stabbed his brother to death for allegedly insulting him at their home in Mw...