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The Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK) writes further to the Committee’s invitation to the stakeholder engagement scheduled on 20th–21st August 2026, issued pursuant to Article 118(1)(b) of the Constitution and Standing Order 127(3).

Liberia, one of the poorest nations in Africa, has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States over the coming year, marking one of the largest such arrangements struck under President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown. Liberian authorities confirmed the agreement this week, with Information Minister Jerolinmek Piah telling reporters that the first batch of 20 deportees is expected to arrive within days.

Ref: COFEK/PRES/SH/WSR/08/2026 H.E William Samoei Ruto, CIC, CGH, President & Commander-in-Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces Republic of Kenya State/Harambee House NAIROBI Dear Your Excellency, RE: AN OPEN LETTER DEMANDING IMMEDIATE RE-ORGANOZATION OF THE INTERNAL SECURITY DOCKET LEADERSHIP AND DECISIVE ACTION AGAINST STATE-TOLERATED POLITICAL GOONISM We write to you not as adversaries of your Government, but as citizens exercising the very constitutional duty you swore to protect — the duty...

Kenya’s apex consumer lobby has fired a fresh constitutional missile at the breakfast aisle, dragging the Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute (KNDI), Weetabix East Africa, Brookside Dairy and the Ministry of Health into the High Court over a green-tinted “KNDI Endorsed” seal that’s been quietly stamped on cereal boxes across the country.

Serious questions are emerging over how Kenya’s mandatory inbound travel health insurance requirement — anchored in Section 26(6) of the Social Health Insurance Act, 2023 — is being administered, with sources alleging that a scheme meant to protect visitors and channel funds into the country’s health financing architecture has instead become a vehicle for private enrichment.

The Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK) has closely reviewed the ‘Daily Nation’s front-page and double-spread story of Thursday, 9 July 2026, splashed under the headline “Ex-Epra boss ‘tortured’ workers over Sh96m,” and finds it wanting on the very standards of fairness, verification and evidence that a paper of the Nation’s stature owes its readers.

The Ministry of Health has concluded preparations for the 2026/2027 internship cohort. Pre-interns collect their offer letters at Afya House on Monday 29th June before commencing postings across Kenya’s public health facilities one day into July. COFEK Newsdesk   |   Nairobi   |   27 June 2026 On the first day of July 2026, six thousand three hundred and sixty newly graduated healthcare professionals will fan out across public health facilities in every corner of Kenya.

A 2024 survey found 41 buildings around Wilson Airport violating aviation safety rules. Not one has been demolished. Now, instead of enforcing the law, the government wants to redirect flight paths towards Nairobi National Park. Senators are alarmed. COFEK demands answers. Nairobi, Kenya | 27 June 2026 A proposal now before Parliament has raised one of the most serious aviation safety questions in Kenya’s recent history.

COFEK exposes how the Ksh 154.2 billion JKIA modernisation contract was secretly awarded to a consortium involving China Road and Bridge Corporation — whose parent was debarred by the World Bank for fraud — and IMC Construction Kenya, a company linked to Wicknell Chivayo, a man with a 2004 fraud conviction and a trail of stalled billion-dollar projects across Southern Africa.

By COFEK | June 20, 2026: Nearly a month after a Shanzu court ordered the destruction of 1,036 kilogrammes of methamphetamine — worth Sh8.2 billion — seized aboard Iranian vessel MV Mashallah, the drugs remain sitting in storage. The Anti-Narcotics Unit (ANU) has filed for more time, pushing the destruction to late July or August. The original June 11 destruction date at Bamburi Cement was set precisely because the court feared theft, corruption, substitution and cartel interference.