Articles by Johnson Muriithi

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...

Three suspected robbers shot dead in Kirinyaga

1128, October 28, 2018 (EAT)

Three suspected gangsters were Sunday morning shot dead by police at Kerugoya Town in Kirinyaga County. Confirming the midnight incident, Kirinyaga...

Gang steals coffee worth millions in Kirinyaga

1346, October 22, 2018 (EAT)

Police in Kirinyaga County are investigating an incident where a gang of over 10 men stole bags of coffee worth millions of shillings at Kiandieri cof...

Kirinyaga County officials arrested for allegedly demanding Ksh.300K bribe

643, October 15, 2018 (EAT)

Detectives from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) have arrested two officials of the Kirinyaga County Licensing Board for allegedly dem...

75-year-old woman murdered in Kirinyaga

1342, October 9, 2018 (EAT)

The body of a 75-year-old woman was on Tuesday found dumped at a trading centre in Ndia, Kirinyaga County. According to the deceased woman's daught...

Police officer from Kirinyaga shoots himself in the head

1213, September 8, 2018 (EAT)

Panic gripped Kagio Police Station in Kirinyaga after an officer shot himself in the head on Saturday morning. Also Read: Cop shoots self after a...

Kirinyaga boy with unknown skin disease gets help after social media campaign

928, August 26, 2018 (EAT)

A Kirinyaga boy who was suffering from an unknown skin disease for three years is to be taken to Nairobi for treatment after a social media campaign h...

Waiguru to sue IPSOS over report ranking her second most corrupt

1857, August 22, 2018 (EAT)

Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru says she will sue research firm IPSOS Synovate for releasing a survey report indicating that Kenyans perceive her as t...

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

1547, July 27, 2018 (EAT)

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...

Kirinyaga woman in hospital after husband mutilates her private parts

946, July 26, 2018 (EAT)

A 29-year-old woman from Kirinyaga County is nursing serious injuries after her husband used a knife to cut her private parts. Monica Mumbi was rus...

Three dead as boda boda rams into Probox

1100, July 9, 2018 (EAT)

Three people died and one was seriously injured in a road accident on the Sagana-Karatina highway in Kirinyaga County on Sunday evening. According ...

Two shot dead, others injured after thugs attack World Cup fans

1054, July 2, 2018 (EAT)

Two people were killed and two others were seriously injured after armed gangsters raided Ndindiruku shopping centre in Mwea, Kirinyaga County. The...

Waiguru: I will fire all lazy Kirinyaga County staff

1245, June 28, 2018 (EAT)

Kirinyaga County Governor Anne Waiguru has threatened to sack all non-performing County Executive Committee members. According to her, some of them...

Medic, 65, in jail after woman dies during abortion procedure

959, June 20, 2018 (EAT)

Police in Kirinyaga County have arrested a 65-year-old man following the death of a woman after an abortion procedure allegedly went awry. The acc...

Police barred from arresting Kirinyaga Woman Rep’s brother over illegal sugar

1928, June 18, 2018 (EAT)

A Kirinyaga businessman and his wife have obtained court orders barring police from arresting them over illegal sugar that was impounded in Ruiru, Kia...