Good morning,
We hope you had a wonderful weekend. Kenyans have a reputation of doing things at the last minute. This year, the government had to extend the Huduma Namba registration following massive turn up in the last week.
But the government will be hoping for a miracle on the deadline day of the Ksh 1000 notes.
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) hopes that Kenyans will throng banks with sacks of the old notes, just like they have done previously on deadline day(s).
In demonetizing the old currency, CBK had hoped to collect more than Ksh 217 billion, some of the money which was thought to be hidden under mattresses, in a process that would redistribute it back to the economy.
But no one has taken huge amounts of money to the bank? So where did the money go? Does it mean that CBK did not have the right information or the money launderers found a way to change their old notes through the backdoor?
We will be discussing this and other hot stories on Opera News.
Here are the stories making headlines this morning:
900 Bank Accounts on Police Radar, as Demonetization Ends
At least 900 accounts have been flagged by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) for making suspicious deposits as the exchange of the old KSh 1,000 notes ends today.
The fate of some of these unusual deposits will be known starting later this week as the curtain comes down on the demonetisation process.
Sarah Denied Cohen Sex for Four Years
Sex, violence and property were at the heart of the divorce between slain Dutchman Tob Cohen and his widow Sarah Wairimu.
Court papers paint a picture of marriage with sky-high hostilities, one that was irretrievably ruptured and had become conjugally nonexistent.
Former Treasury Employee Could Have Been Killed by Her Daughter
New revelations indicate that the daughter could have killed her 73-year-old mother, Judy Wanjiku Mwai, at South B Estate in Nairobi.
They lived alone with their ailing husband-father, who was in the hospital at the time.
Police said someone called and informed them that he or she had committed murder at the same estate on early Monday morning.
The race for the hotly Kibra seat continues to intensify with three candidates now emerging as the front runners. From the onset, ODM’s Imran Okoth appeared to be the favourite but after adding Jubilee’s MacDonald Mariga and ANC’s Eliud Owalo to the equation, the odds seemingly changed.
Among the three candidates, who do you think will take the seat? Cast your vote on our comment section.