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MPS BACK BID TO STOP PARTY DEFECTORS LEGISLATORS SAY THERE IS NEED TO CONFINE POLITICIANS TO THEIR PARTIES EVEN AFTER LOSING IN THE NOMINATIONS
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Woman found dead at Nairobi hotel pool
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olice are investigating an incident in which a 27 yearold woman was found dead in a swimming pool at the Hilton hotel early today. The woman is said to have left her American boyfriend who is a pilot in the room when she went swimming at 5.00 am, according to Nairobi Police Boss Japheth Koome. “The incident took place when the woman who is Kenyan and her boyfriend were at the Hilton hotel where they had checked in at dawn. They had been partying during the night and had frequented two clubs in Westlands,” he said. Police say it is the boyfriend and another lady who discovered the body in the swimming pool when they went to check. “The three were in their room when the lady decided to go for a swim. The boyfriend and the other friend later came out and found her in the swimming pool,” he explained. Koome indicated that the police will record statements from the American boyfriend, the other lady and hotel staff. When journalists visited the Hotel, the guards were tight lipped over the incident but stated that “the police had already been there and finished their business.” It is suspected that the woman drowned after partying all night. MORE ON THIS STORY www.capitalfm.co.ke
Pedestrians walk past Hilton Hotel in Nairobi. A woman was today found dead at a swimming pool in the facility located along Moi Avenue in the heart of the city centre. Police say she had partied all night prior to the incident.
State in plans to cap land prices The government is crafting a land evaluation control index to tame the demand for hefty compensation by land owners which has threatened to hold back mega state development projects in the country. If the value index is implemented land and property owners tangled in the acquisition process will only be compensated the ideal amount for the value estimated before the announcement of the project was made. While making the revelations earlier today,
Lands Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi revealed that the unwarranted demands for settlement have significantly increased the cost of projects, adding that some investors had pulled out because of they cannot meet the costs. “The ministry is crafting a regulatory policy that will introduce land evaluation control index that will caution property owners from unreasonably inflating costs in compensation,” Prof Kaimenyi said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
You are not off the hook yet, senators warn Governors
Governors who have been grilled by the Senate’s Public Accounts and Investment Committee are not yet off the hook and should not start celebrating that they have been cleared of any financial impropriety, senators have warned. The committee’s chairman and Kisumu Senator Anyang’ Nyong’o said the county chiefs will have to wait for the final report of the committee to be cleared by the senate before they can breathe a sigh of relief. “This committee doesn’t clear governors, it is important to note that after we have finished all the audit queries, we will write our report and present it to the whole House who will have a final say on it,” Nyong’o said. The committee have been grilling governors of all the 47 counties over audit queries raised by the Auditor General in the 2013/14 financial year. The fate of Nairobi Governor CONTINUED ON PAGE 2