Articles by Namisi Cheptai

Wetangula threatens to call for protest against 16% fuel tax

1650, September 9, 2018 (EAT)

Bungoma Senator and FORD-Kenya Party leader Moses Wetangula has threatened to call for a protest against the 16 percent value added tax (VAT) imposed ...

Deputy OCS lynched after killing bodaboda rider

2031, July 4, 2018 (EAT)

A senior officer was on Tuesday evening lynched by residents of Binyenya Village in Tongaren Constituency, Bungoma County, after he reportedly shot an...

Contraband sugar worth Ksh.250M nabbed in Bungoma

1918, June 14, 2018 (EAT)

A consignment of contraband sugar worth Ksh.250 million was on Wednesday impounded in the warehouses of Panafrican Paper Mills in Webuye, Bungoma Co...

Student allegedly raped at Moi Girls Kamusinga

1102, June 6, 2018 (EAT)

Police in Kimilili, Bungoma County, are looking for a teacher from Moi Girls' Kamusinga School who is alleged to have fled after sexually assaulting a...

Mt. Elgon killing ‘masterminds’ accuse MP Kapondi of incitement

1921, May 31, 2018 (EAT)

Alleged masterminds of the Mt. Elgon killings now want area MP Fred Kapondi and former Cheptais Deputy County Commissioner Stephen Momanyi in court be...

Bungoma leaders in near fistfight over Nzoia Sugar

1713, March 24, 2018 (EAT)

A meeting ended in disarray after a fight almost ensued between two Bungoma leaders over government plans to privatise Nzoia Sugar. Sirisia MP John...

Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula has termed his removal as Senate Minority Leader as a “mischievous” ...

Wetangula to Raila: Why did you meet Uhuru without us?

1904, March 9, 2018 (EAT)

NASA co-principal and Ford-Kenya leader Moses Wetangula says he and his colleagues from the opposition outfit will seek an explanation from Raila Odin...

Two beheaded as gang kills 4 in Mt. Elgon night attack

1900, February 19, 2018 (EAT)

Tension is high in Mt. Elgon region of Bungoma County after four people were shot dead on Sunday night by an eight-member gang. The gang, armed wit...

Two killed in Mt. Elgon attack

1715, January 28, 2018 (EAT)

Residents of Mt. Elgon area in Bungoma County are now living in fear after a gang believed to be remnants of the outlawed Sabaot Land Defense Force ki...

NASA wants Safran-Morpho out

1048, September 17, 2017 (EAT)

The opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) now wants French biometric system supplier, Safran Morpho, stopped from supplying the Independent Electo...

Woman loses eye, teeth over Ksh150

804, March 29, 2017 (EAT)

Residents of Kimilili Town in Bungoma County were treated to a horrific incident when a man beat his wife to the point of losing an eye and three teet...

Western leaders to ditch Jubilee

1936, March 25, 2017 (EAT)

Bungoma Governor Ken Lusaka and a section of Western Kenya lawmakers backing the Jubilee Party have pledged to support the opposition outfit NASA if o...

Three MPESA robbers nabbed in Bungoma

1917, February 7, 2017 (EAT)

Three suspects were on Tuesday, February 7 arrested in Matulo, Webuye, Bungoma County after Flying Squad officers trailed them for alleged M-PESA frau...

Cane poaching leaves two dead in Nzoia

2015, December 8, 2016 (EAT)

Cane poaching in the western Kenya sugar belt has turned violent as at least two people have been killed in the battle to secure cane. Farmers in N...

Wetangula slams Uhuru over Ksh5bn Afya House scandal

1349, November 5, 2016 (EAT)

CORD co-principal Moses Wetangula has lashed out at the Jubilee administration over the alleged Ksh5b scandal at Afya House. While accusing Preside...

Bungoma police gun down most wanted robber

1724, September 29, 2016 (EAT)

Police in Bungoma on Wednesday night gunned down a suspected robber and recovered an AK47 rifle with 23 rounds of ammunition. Bungoma South OCPD, Dav...

Speak up against Moi University protests, Ababu tells Kenyatta, Ruto

1446, September 25, 2016 (EAT)

Budalangi Member of Parliament Ababu Namwamba has asked President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto to publicly condemn cases of ethnic discr...

New Ford Kenya threatens to quit Jubilee merger

2023, September 1, 2016 (EAT)

The New Ford Kenya party has threatened to quit Jubilee, barely a month after it agreed to dissolve in favour of the newly formed political outfit. ...

Pan Paper delays reopening to September

1832, August 22, 2016 (EAT)

Pan Paper Mills will delay its reopening until mid September after running into upgrade delays. The Webuye based paper mill which was acquired by t...

Terror suspect arrested in Bungoma

1347, August 20, 2016 (EAT)

Anti-terror police officers and Bungoma CID detectives have arrested a 20-year-old suspected terrorist. Ishmael Wafula Nyongesa was nabbed at a Bun...