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TEMPORARY REPRIEVE: Highriodge Girls Secondary school teacher Hillary Okeyo at the Milimani Law Courts today. Chief Magistrate Daniel Ogembo allowed that he be released on a Sh500, 000 cash bail pending the hearing of his case. He is accused of drugging and defiling a 15-year-old student at the school.
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he Opposition coalition Cord is considering launching its own ‘prayer rallies’ for Deputy President William Ruto and his co-accused Joshua Sang in what could turn out to be a battle for the United Republican Party (URP) leader. The Jubilee alliance has held several prayer rallies for Ruto in recent weeks and sources say the rallies have turned out to be podiums for political rhetoric through which the ruling coalition continues to get the better of their rivals, at least politically. Cord MPs who are involved in the planning of the prayer rallies say they are meant to counter the Jubilee brigade. “We are not amused by the lies being peddled by Jubilee politicians in their prayer rallies. We must counter them,” a Cord lawmaker who requested not be named confided to X News. The first of the series of the prayer rallies will be held in Nairobi before proceeding to Mombasa, Machakos, Nakuru and Uasin Gishu counties. The Nairobi rally was already scheduled for Kibera’s Kamukunji grounds this weekend with Nairobi County ODM chairperson George Aladwa and Dagoretti North MP Simba Arati tasked with making arrangements for it. Details of the plans are still scanty as the technical committee composed of senators and MPs are said to be fine-tuning the schedule. Both Cord and Jubilee politicians have been trading barbs over claims of fixing Ruto at the International Criminal Court (ICC) with each side accusing the other of coaching witnesses. The debate began when Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria claimed to have coached witnesses in the case against Ruto at a prayer rally for the DP in Mount Elgon. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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