.@KeEquityBank digital banking transactions have gone up to 937.9M transactions and bank branches have become experiential points and big corporate and SME support centres - Dr. James Mwangi
97% of @KeEquityBank transactions are now conducted off the branches by customers. The bank has now become a technology platform on financial licences. We are now big tech in financial services. - Dr. James Mwangi
#EquityAfia has 46 franchised clinics across Kenya which have registered 572K patient visits and we are planning to increase their footprint to 1000 clinics across Kenya. - Dr. James Mwangi MD/CEO @KeEquityBank
In July, the media reported that @Kemsa_Kenya had distributed contaminated contraceptives to various parts of the country. - @StandardKenya
According to the reports, later confirmed by various public agencies, the contraceptives possibly became contaminated because of delays at the Port of Mombasa while awaiting clearance.
UNFPA shipped the contraceptives in question in October 2020 and failure by GoK to allocate a budget for tax clearance caused an eight-month delay. Eventually, the consignment was released after @KeTreasury requested @KRACare to waive the taxes owed.
The UK govt is willing to allow extradition of suspects implicated in the murder of Agnes Wanjiru 9years ago according to British Minister for Armed Forces, James Heappey, who is currently in Kenya. He pledged his govt's support in seeking justice for Wanjiru. - @NationAfrica
These are legal matters that will need to be considered in time but the Secretary of State for Defence has been clear: if investigations lead to charges against a British serviceperson, he will make sure Kenyan investigations and legal procedures are supported - Heappey
The UK Minister is in the country to follow up on a probe into the killing of Wanjiru, 21, allegedly at the hands of a British soldier who was stationed in Nanyuki at the time.
Mombasa Resident judge Justice John Mativo has asked @DCI_Kenya to investigate the mysterious disappearances of court files. - @NationAfrica
It cannot be business as usual. How can the court administer justice when the blame on the lost files lies squarely at its doorstep - Justice Mativo
Justice Mativo directed the court’s deputy registrar to write to the @DCI_Kenya in Mombasa and “lodge a complaint regarding the disappearance of the court file” and request an investigation to establish how it happened and what legal action could be taken.
.@Devolution254 PS Julius Korir is facing imminent suspension and criminal trial for allegedly assaulting his wife following a dispute involving food. - @NationAfrica
This comes after the High Court dismissed his petition to stop @ODPP_KE from proceeding with the trial in which he is accused of assaulting Ms Everlyne Chepkorir Koech on September 17, 2020 in Karen, Nairobi.
Justice Anthony Mrima dismissed Mr Korir’s arguments that the criminal charges are meant to embarrass him and force him into surrendering 50% of the matrimonial property.
Almost 90 per cent of severely ill Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the country share one thing - they are unvaccinated. - @NationAfrica
.@MOH_Kenya states that out of the more than 500 cases that were admitted, more than 400 were unvaccinated. As for the critically ill patients, almost all of them have not been vaccinated against the virus.
All the hospitals have now been advised to keep a vaccination record of patients they admit so that the government can keep tabs on the virus.
SCOK allowed @ODPP_KE Noordin Haji to proceed with the extradition process of graft suspects Samuel Gichuru and Chris Okemo. - @NationAfrica
The two are wanted in the island of Jersey for prosecution over theft of public funds and money laundering. Their extradition has been delayed for 10 years due to legal challenges.
.@AGOfficeKenya Kihara Kariuki and @ODPP_KE were locked in a legal tussle over who has the mandate for extradition proceedings against the graft suspects.