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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.

A research synthesis on the structural, academic, and financial levers required to lift African dental education to the level of the world’s leading programmes. African dental education sits at a paradox. The continent carries a fast-rising burden of oral disease — roughly 42% of people in the WHO African Region had untreated oral conditions in 2021 — yet it trains and retains the fewest dentists of any world region.

A 29-page whistleblower complaint to the Public Service Commission alleges KES 814 million in procurement fraud, a web of conflicts of interest, and systemic governance rot at the Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority — implicating its most senior officers. When the Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (NaMATÀ) was established to bring order to Nairobi’s chaotic transport ecosystem, Kenyans had reason for cautious optimism.

Kenya’s Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) programme — one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious health-sciences degrees — may have been operating for years without valid accreditation under the current statutory framework. That is the alarming possibility raised in a formal demand letter that the Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK) dispatched on 10 June 2026 to Cabinet Secretary for Education Mr Julius Migos Ogamba.

The Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK) is set to file an application to be enjoined as an interested party in the constitutional petition challenging the appointment of Peter Maina Karimi as Director General of the Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA). The petition was filed at the Milimani High Court’s Constitutional and Human Rights Division by Patrick Mwashigadi in February.

KWS Director General Erustus Kanga announced the relocation of the 62-year-old Nairobi Animal Orphanage (NAO) from its current 7.2-acre site at Nairobi National Park to an 89-acre plot opposite Bomas of Kenya, citing the growing number of injured, orphaned, and confiscated wild animals that have stretched the facility’s capacity.  KWS says construction will take one and a half years at an estimated cost of KES 3 to 4 billion, and the new facility will not be privatised.