Monday, September 16
Rogue Powerful Mr.Sserugi Habibu, a Museveni’s Pointman charged with forging a Presidential Signature to secure Employment
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Rogue Powerful Mr.Sserugi Habibu, a Museveni’s Pointman charged with forging a Presidential Signature to secure Employment

A Powerful Museveni Official Was Arrested And Charged For Forging President's Signature to Get a Job A very powerful official in the Ugandan government is being haunted by a fraud he committed over a decade ago as a fresh graduate, throwing his hard earned reputation in the mud. Mr Sserugi Habibu, a member of the Uganda's Equal Opportunity Commission- a body charged with fighting discrimination and promoting equality is the man who finds himself at the centre of a decade long con that's risking to smash his destine forever. After enjoying an illustrious career in the deeper circles of the state, its emerged that the powerful Commission member was arrested and charged in 2013 after it emerged that he had forged the signature of a certain powerful member of the Ugandan First...
Bobi Wine Infuriates Museveni as He Moves to Frustrate Mega-Million Dollar Deal With Denmark
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Bobi Wine Infuriates Museveni as He Moves to Frustrate Mega-Million Dollar Deal With Denmark

A group of activists referring to themselves as “friends of Uganda” have filed a petition to the government of Denmark appealing for a suspension of funding to the Ugandan government over its human rights record. In the February 14th 2024 letter to the Danish Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy, Mr Dan Jorgensen, the activists are calling for an urgent suspension of funding to the Ugandan government and halting support for the environmentally contentious East African Crude Oil Project(EACOP). “We write to express our deep concern regarding your past and the recent financial support extended to Mr Museveni's regime by the Danish government, as reported in the meeting on January 24, 2024,” reads the petition in part.   “The substantial funds allo...
Health Ministry Disowns Butere based Mwale Hospital and Leaders Urge Government to open investigations
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Health Ministry Disowns Butere based Mwale Hospital and Leaders Urge Government to open investigations

Health Ministry Disowns Butere based Mwale Hospital and Leaders Urge Government to open investigation After revelations that the much touted Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC) is a phantom project a section of leaders from Western region and residents of Butere now want the government to investigate individuals behind it. This came as it emerged that both the Ministry of Health and the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Board (KMPDB) disowned the existence of the much hyped 5000 bed capacity hospital in Butere, terming it a creation of the media. The leaders are now calling upon President William Ruto to order the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to launch investigations into claims by the self-proclaimed multimillionaire Julius Mwale t...
Nathan Abiud Dome alias Obura was accused of defrauding the investors on diverse dates.
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Nathan Abiud Dome alias Obura was accused of defrauding the investors on diverse dates.

A trader has been charged with conspiracy to defraud two shareholders of their shares in a company. Nathan Abiud Dome alias Obura was accused of defrauding the investors on diverse dates. He appeared before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Benard Ochoi and denied the charges. Dome is accused of conspiracy to defraud 510 shares from Philemon Davis Mwakitawa, an offence he allegedly committed that on diverse dates between January 23rd and 26th this year at an unknown place. It is claimed that he conspired jointly with others not before court The court further heard that Dome conspired to defraud 490 shares from Clement Rapudo Sijenyi by means of illegal transfer. . It is alleged that he claimed that the shares had been transferred to Joseph Kimani Kariuki after alleging that...
Fraudsters In Nigeria Forged Ex-President’s Signature To Steal Sh964 Million From The Central Bank
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Fraudsters In Nigeria Forged Ex-President’s Signature To Steal Sh964 Million From The Central Bank

Nigeria is seeking Interpol’s help to arrest three suspects who allegedly stole $6.2m (Sh964m) from the central bank, using the forged signature of then President Muhammadu Buhari. Authorities believe that the suspects conspired with Nigeria’s former central bank chief Godwin Emefiele. He is already on trial on 20 charges, including illegally receiving the $6.2m. Mr Emefiele has denied all the charges, and is currently out on bail. He is the most high-profile former official to be charged with corruption since President Bola Tinubu took office last May. Prosecutors also allege that Mr Emefiele unlawfully authorised the release of the money from the central bank vault. In a statement last December, he described the allegations as “barefaced lies told by the inv...
Exclusive: Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel Mounts Final Appeal Over Murder Conviction
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Exclusive: Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel Mounts Final Appeal Over Murder Conviction

 Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel on Wednesday asked a London court to overturn his murder conviction, citing attempts to bribe his trial jury and the use of incriminating messages as reasons his conviction is unsafe. The musician, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, is one of Jamaica’s most popular artists and has collaborated with performers such as Jay-Z and Rihanna. Vybz Kartel, 48, has been in jail in Jamaica since 2011 when he was arrested over the disappearance of his associate Clive “Lizard” Williams, whose body has never been found. After a 64-day trial in Kingston, one of the longest in Jamaican history, Kartel and three others were convicted in 2014. Kartel was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 35 years, later reduced on appeal to 32-and-a-half. Kartel and hi...
John Wandurwa Gichane charged with stealing from brother
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John Wandurwa Gichane charged with stealing from brother

An elderly man has been charged before a Milimani court with conspiracy to defraud. John Wandurwa Gichane appeared before Milimani Chief Magistrate Lukas Onyina and denied the charges levelled against him. Wandurwa was charged with conspiracy to steal Sh 600,000, from Gichane and Sons Ltd, an offence he allegedly committed on diverse dates between November 25, 2022 and December 22, 2022 jointly with others not before court. The elderly man was further accused of forging extracts of minutes of a board of directors’ meeting of Gichane and Sons, allegedly held on November 25, 2022 purporting it to be genuine and valid document signed by Samwel Gichane Wandurwa. He was further charged with stealing Sh400,000 at National Bank Ltd , Harambee Avenue Branch being a director of Gichane and ...
Safaricom Acknowledges M-Pesa Message Issue For Some Android Users, Offers Solution
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Safaricom Acknowledges M-Pesa Message Issue For Some Android Users, Offers Solution

Safaricom has responded to reports of some customers not receiving M-Pesa transaction messages. The company identified the issue as affecting Android users with third-party messaging apps set as default. “Dear Customer, We have noted that some of our customers are not receiving messages from Safaricom and/or M-Pesa. This issue is affecting customers with Android phones who are using third party SMS apps,” Safaricom stated. Key Points Problem: M-Pesa transaction messages not reaching some users. Cause: Using third-party messaging apps as default on Android phones. Solution: Check spam and blocked folders for Safaricom messages and unblock them. Switch to the default messaging app for receiving M-Pesa notifications. “Open your SMS app and check the Spam & ...
Reprieve For Co-Op Bank CEO In Land Feud With Squatters
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Reprieve For Co-Op Bank CEO In Land Feud With Squatters

Gidjoy Investment Limited, a firm associates with Co-Op Bank Chief Executive Officer Gideon Miriuki and his wife, has found a reproved in court after the state prosecution was allowed to table pictorial evidence of damaged Donholm land. This is after the first witness, Dickson Kitoi, was stood down after it emerged that the exhibit photos in the prosecution’s file did not march what the defence team had. Kitoi is a supervisor at the Gidjoy Investment Ltd’s farm, which the suspects allegedly invaded. Members of Sowesava self-help group who had been previously charged with malicious damage to property for demolishing a perimeter fence around Greenspan Estate situated in Donholm belonging to Gidjoy Investments Limited. In the case, Benita Alando, Peter Keya, Davis Mutuku, Titus Ochieng,...
Is the Butere based Mwale Complex a phantom project?
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Is the Butere based Mwale Complex a phantom project?

It had been billed to be the nextSilicon Valley of Kenya, with a one-stop shopping centre, offering amultitude of products and services to its customers, all under oneroof. Upon its completion, the much touted Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC) was supposed to have a 5000bed capacity Hamptons hospital, a 36-hole golf course, a shoppingcomplex, 4800 new homes and 150 km of improved roads. But investigations on the ground depicta different picture amid revelations that it is a project being toyedaround with the main purpose of conning donors by those behind it. Former Kakamega governor WycliffeOpayanya aptly sums it with a clear warning: “I know the placewhere the purported complex is located, and I know the purportedproprietor well.....the whole thing is a scam aimed at conningdono...