The controversial preacher Gilbert Deya was today morning arraigned in court and pleaded not guilty to five charges of child stealing.

Deya appeared before Nairobi chief Magistrate Francis Andayi after his appeal over the extradition request was rejected by a UK court.

Gilbert Deya, is alleged to have stolen five Kenyan children -“Miracle babies “between 1999 and 2004.

He was however been remanded at Kamiti Maximum Prison until the 10th of this month when the court will rule on his bail application.

Through his lawyers Deya asked the court to release him on bail saying that he’s not a flight risk and will abide by court directions.

“He’s a resident of Bondo and has a family in the country .He is an archbishop who has 36,000 members in London alone.

The accused is not a flight risk,” argued Deya’s lawyers.

The court further heard that Deya has no desire to interfere with the investigations in any way adding that Investigations were done more than 10 years ago.

According to the lawyers Deya was taken to Government chemist where he gave samples of his saliva for purposes of DNA test.

“There are no compelling reasons to have Deya detained, “submitted lawyer Cliff Ombeta.

The court was told that Deya has been fighting the extradition process for 12 years.

However the prosecution objected the application to have Deya released on bail saying that he cannot be trusted.

Through state prosecutor Nicholas Mutuku, the court was told that Deya does not deserve the privilege of attending court from his home.

“If he has a family and a fixed abound why did he run away,” asked the prosecutor.

Mutuku dismissed the arguments by the defense saying that if released on bail, Deya will not comply with the condition of the court.

In 2011 the wife of the controversial UK-based preacher Mary Deya was imprisoned by magistrate Grace Nzioka for stealing a child and giving false information. The magistrate upheld medical evidence presented in court that she was not the baby’s maternal parent and ordered her to serve three years on each count.

Similarly High Court judge Msagha Mbogholi rejected her appeal and upheld her conviction and sentence for stealing the baby boy at Kenyatta National Hospital in 2005

BY SAM ALFAN.

High court has directed IEBC to publish in the media a confirmation that the register is open for inspection within 48 hours.

“As there is no evidence that the register was open before these processings were instituted, “ruled Odunga

Justice Odunga gave the directions in a case in which Africa Centre for Open Governance (Africog) director Gladwell Otieno wanted the electoral agency compelled to publish and open up the voter register for public inspection as clustered per polling stations.

Further the court declined to stop IEBC from distributing a purported register of voters to returning officers for use in the General Election before being subjected to public inspection in a reasonable time frame. The court said that by doing so it will be interfering with the preparation of the general elections.

“Doing so , it will be stopping IEBC from carrying its statutory duties .Thers nothing to ne restrained,”said Odunga

The judge declared that in the future , IEBC should ensure that the voters register is open for inspection by members of the public at all times for the purpose of rectifying particulars therein.

In addition , judge Odunga declared that within 90 days to the general election, the register of voters should be open  for scrutiny for a period of at least 30 days.

This is after a voter moved to court seeking IEBC compelled to make public the voters register before elections.

Executive Director  Gladwell Otieno of Africog is seeking enough time for the public to peruse the register before elections.

Ms Otieno argues that section 6 of the Election Act and Regulations 33 of the Elections requires that the register of voters be opened up for inspection by voters 90 days before the election.

Africog also wants the court to prohibit IEBC from deploying a voter register for use in the general election slated for 8th August before it is subjected to public inspection as required under the law.

The Civil Society organisation further holds that there are noted inconsistencies in numbers declared by IEBC adding that the actual number of registered voters is not certain in some regions.

Ms Otieno says that an inspection of the register will enable voters scrutinize and ascertain the actual registered voters in their areas of concern.

In a certificate of urgency, the petitioner says that the continued non observance of the provisions of the law by Chebukati led commission constitute a threat to the rights and freedoms to have a free and fair election.

A Nairobi court has detained a taxi driver for two days to investigate allegations of violently robbing and gun raping a female passenger.
Anthony Kanyari Muga appeared before Milimani senior resident magistrate Hellen Onkwani and denied two counts of robbery with violence and gun rapping a lady who boarded his taxi on 31st July at around 1.00 am near Ngara primary School.

Muga is alleged to have stolen clothes, a pair of shoes, a mobile phone, a handbag and cash Sh 31,000, all totaling to sh 54,800 .

Muga is said to have committed the offence with another man before court and wounded the lady after the horrific incident.

The prosecution was granted two days sought to complete investigations and  to take the accused’s samples to a government chemist.

However the accused through his lawyer told the court that he was arrested at River road parking lot on Tuesday and taken to Mbagathi hospital where tests were taken.

Prosecution informed the court that the accused was indeed taken to Mbagathi hospital yesterday but they are still waiting for the results.

Onkwani was also told that the tests at Mbagathi are not similar to the ones to be carried out by the government chemists.

The victim is said to have boarded the taxi registration number KCK 681K make probox to take her to Pangani.

Muga is alleged to have called another man by the name ‘Mwas’ who also got into the taxi.

However, the driver is said to have diverted along the way, stopped near Ngara area and attacked the victim inside the taxi.

The accused was granted a Sh 2 million bond which he will processes after the two days he has been detained.

The case will be heard on October 3.

BY NT REPORTER.

A US-based Kenyan businesswoman has been sentenced to death.

This is after the court found the PHD student guilty of shooting and killing her husband three years ago.

Sheila Wanjiku Kibinge has 14 days to appeal the decision.

While sentencing her to death high court judge Jessy Lesit said that the only sentence to murder is death adding that the offence committed by Wanjiku is very serious.

Wanjiku was found guilty of killing Leonard Kibinge on April 15, 2014 at Gitaru village, Kikuyu constituency.

Wanjiku had claimed she and her husband were kidnapped that night and that it was the kidnappers who killed Kibinge.

In her testimony, the woman said she walked away when she heard a blast before their car crashed into a fence.

Lessit said she found it interesting that after the incident, Wanjiku bypassed Kikuyu police station – a stone’s throw distance from the purported crime scene.

She opted to report the ‘kidnapping’ at Central police station in Nairobi.

The woman claimed she came to Kenya to process a visa for her husband so that they could relocate to the US.