Articles by Johnson Muriithi

Kirinyaga: Two arrested after breaking into bar, stealing Ksh.26K

1212, February 18, 2019 (EAT)

Two suspected gangsters were on Sunday arrested after breaking into a bar at Karia trading centre, Kirinyaga County, and stealing Ksh.26, 000. Con...

Kirinyaga: Woman allegedly raped, killed and body hung on electric pole by lover

1205, February 17, 2019 (EAT)

Police in Kirinyaga County are investigating an incident where the body of a 22-year-old woman was found hanging from an electric pole at Rukanga vil...

Woman found dead, hanging from electric pole in Mwea

449, February 13, 2019 (EAT)

Panic gripped residents in Rukanga village Mwea Constituency after a body of a middle aged woman was found hanging from an electric pole. Led by vi...

Two killed, 3 injured after fuel truck collides with probox in Kirinyaga

1358, February 10, 2019 (EAT)

Two people died and three others were injured on Sunday morning following a head-on collision between a Probox vehicle and a fuel truck at Gwa Kariba ...

Kirinyaga: Couple arrested for failing to take daughter to Form 1

1238, February 3, 2019 (EAT)

A couple has been arrested at Kianjege Village in Kirinyaga County for allegedly denying their daughter the right to education. According to Kanyek...

Police crime scene marking. Photo/Courtesy

Woman scalds husband’s private parts with hot water over phone call

1215, January 29, 2019 (EAT)

A 39-year-old man is nursing serious burn injuries after his wife poured hot water on him during a scuffle over a phone call at Ngurubani area in Mwea...

Suspected serial rapist killed in Kirinyaga

1759, January 20, 2019 (EAT)

Angry residents of Gathiriku village in Mwea, Kirinyaga County on Sunday lynched a 25-year-old man who is alleged to have been a serial rapist. The...

45-year-old man killed by falling tree in Kirinyaga

1519, January 20, 2019 (EAT)

A man died after a tree fell on him on Saturday at Kara-ini village in Kirinyaga County. According to the family of the deceased, Julius Wachira Mu...

Three suspects linked to Ksh.1.8M robbery arrested in Kirinyaga

1017, January 10, 2019 (EAT)

Police in Kirinyaga County have arrested three suspected criminals in Gichugu following a robbery incident. The incident is said to have taken plac...

Boy, 13, kills himself after missing out on his secondary school of choice

1129, December 13, 2018 (EAT)

The parents of a 13-year-old boy are mourning the death of their son after he killed himself by hanging after he failed to land the school of his cho...

3 killed in bodaboda accident on Kagumo-Kerugoya road

1101, December 11, 2018 (EAT)

Three people died on Monday evening after a motorcycle (bodaboda) accident on the Kerugoya-Kagumo road in Kirinyaga county. According to police off...

Woman, 43, arrested for allegedly dumping newborn in pit latrine

1723, November 24, 2018 (EAT)

A 43-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her newborn baby by throwing him into a pit latrine in Kirinyaga. Ngugu-ini Assistant ...

KDF soldier dies in road crash in Kirinyaga

1145, November 19, 2018 (EAT)

A Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldier died on Monday morning in a road accident at Riandira along Makutano-Sagana Road in Kirinyaga County. Maina Wa...

Kirinyaga: Woman gives birth, dumps baby in pit latrine

1233, November 19, 2018 (EAT)

A 40-year-old woman from Kibingo village in Kirinyaga Central constituency, Kirinyaga County, on Sunday morning gave birth to a baby boy then dumped h...

Four children drown in Kirinyaga

1140, November 13, 2018 (EAT)

Four children drowned on Monday evening in two separate incidents in Kirinyaga County. Two girls, aged three and four, had climbed a tree next to M...

Michuki rules: Miraa vehicles will not be spared in crackdown – PS Kibicho

1346, November 9, 2018 (EAT)

Interior and Coordination Principal Secretary, Karanja Kibicho on Thursday said that vehicles which ferry miraa (khat) from Meru and Mbeere must adher...

Four killed in Karatina road crash

1424, November 3, 2018 (EAT)

Four people have died after the saloon vehicle they were traveling in hit a lorry at Kibirigwi along the Sagana-Karatina Road in Kirinyaga County. ...

70 bags of subsidized fertilizer nabbed in Kirinyaga

1324, November 2, 2018 (EAT)

Police in Kirinyaga County have seized 70 bags of subsidized fertilizer that was being repackaged in a house at Kagio trading center by a local trader...

Man beaten to death over Ksh.700 debt in Kirinyaga

1726, November 1, 2018 (EAT)

Police in Kirinyaga are investigating an incident where a middle-aged man was killed on Wednesday night at Barcho trading centre over an alleged Ksh.7...

Suspected Mungiki sect member killed, hanged in Kirinyaga

1411, October 31, 2018 (EAT)

Police in Kirinyaga County have launched investigations into circumstances that led to the killing of a man suspected to be a member of the outlawed M...