Kenya

The Agricultural Development Corporation(ADC) has warned Kenyans to ignore entreaties by fraudsters to sell the corporation's land nationwide at give-away prices.
The ADC issued this warning through its Director, Richard Ngomo, who lamented that several Kenyans have been swindled by the fraudsters.
“ADC land is not for sale. ADC has not given land, especially in the Coast region. Anybody purporting to be selling ADC land is doing so at his own risk. Any developer wanting to buy land knows the channels of getting land from private entities, but for public land, as far as ADC is concerned, is not available for disposal at this point in time,” he stated.

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The Director cited the Coast region where Kenyans had bought over 500,000 pieces of land amounting to Ksh25 billion as a good example.

The director added that part of the 1.75 million acres of land for the Galana Kulalu project had been affected by fraudulent schemes with many dwellers purchasing the pieces of land below the market value.

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The unabating insecurity in Kenya reared its ugly head again when Police officers reportedly abducted an Information Communication Technologist(ICT)Dennis Itumbu beating him to a state of unconsciousness.

A statement by the brother of the Technologist, David, stressed that Dennis who had been missing after the abduction took place in Thindigua along Kiambu Road, was found tortured and was being treated at a local hospital.

“My brother has been badly beaten. We thank God that he is alive. On his own account, he was arrested by police and beaten and tortured. Please pray for his recovery. Thank you for your many prayers and support,” stated the brother.’’ David revealed.

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Yet to be identified assailants have killed a Medical Doctor in his clinic in Juja Kaimbu County Kenya.
It was gathered from the father of the deceased that unknown persons called his son some minutes past 12 midnight, pretending to be in urgent need of medical care.
''The doctor left his house and rushed to the clinic to tend to the criminals masquerading as patients. When the landlord opened the gate for him to park his vehicle, he found the criminals waiting for him and he ushered them into the consultation room without knowing that they were not patients. The criminals attacked the doctor with knives, stabbing him several times before fleeing the premises and leaving him for the dead.  They left my son with serious wounds and stole his phone'', The father of the deceased lamented.

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) based in Juja are pursuing leads that could lead to the arrest of the culprits.
The detectives say they have already reached out to a telecommunications company to obtain the data required to track the mobile phone.
The doctor's murder comes amid concerns over the rise in crime in Nairobi, Kiambu, and Meru.

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The controversial livestock Bill 2021 has been withdrawn by the Kenyan  National Assembly Majority Leader Amos Kimunya on the promptings of the  Executive.
This disclosure was made on Friday in a statement by Kimunya.
"The bill has temporarily been suspended until we have more consultations within the government because the issues we are raising are some of the issues people have raised from elsewhere," Kimunya stated,'' he disclosed.
The bill was to be introduced for its first reading on Tuesday but was removed from the day\s agenda after the Assembly Speaker, Justin Muturi stated that further consultations were imperative.

A law in the livestock bill had proposed that any person who intends to keep bees required to obtain a license.
Further, the bill stated that no person would be allowed to keep bees for commercial purposes except in an apiary registered under the new Act.
"A person shall not own or possess bees or beekeeping equipment for commercial purposes unless the person is registered under the Act or allow bees to be kept on land owned or occupied by the person unless the land is registered under the act as the location of an apiary," reads the bill.

The presence  of a Female Lawmaker  who was in the chamber of the Kenya Parliament with her five month old baby temporarily disrupted  proceedings last week Wednesday .

The acting Speaker, Christopher Omulele had, on noticing that Kwale Woman Representative, Ms Zuleika Hassan  was in the chamber with her baby, ordered her to take her child out of the chamber.

This resulted into a division among the lawmakers, with some male lawmakers pitching their tents with the female lawmakers wh insisted that Hassan should remain in the chambers.

Even though the acting Speaker ordered the Sergeant-at-Arms to implement his order, a human shield around the the female lawmaker  temporarily prevented her from  been taken out.

In a chat with newsmen after leaving the chambers, Ms Hassan, who was accompanied by her female lawmakers, expalined why she was in the chambers with her baby.

"I had an emergency and decided not to miss work but come with the baby. She is not an atomic bomb and can't explode," Ms Hassan stated.

 In 2013, Kenyan lawmakers  passed a motion directing the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) to set aside a room within Parliament buildings for breastfeeding mothers.