The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) unearthed a syndicate of major suppliers of the banned plastic bags in various parts of the country including Nairobi.

According to the agency, this was done through one of the suspects who was arrested in possession of the bags inside a mini-supermarket.

The suspect then volunteered to take the officers to the supplier in exchange of his freedom.

The supplier goes by the name Akley Bakers.

“Our environmental inspectors backed by the local police and NEMA’s police laid a dragnet for the suspect,” Nema said.

However, the suspect got wind of the plan from sympathetic neighbours where she is believed to have a major store.

Some of her accomplices were arrested as the officers are in pursuit of the supplier who remains at large.

According to a new report by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), the average number of sexual partners among Kenyan men is 7.4.

The report, dubbed the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS) 2022, found out that the average number of sexual partners among Kenyan women is 2.3.

In the report detailing trends in sexual behaviour among Kenyans, 35 percent of men reported having sex in the last 12 months with a person who was neither their wife nor living with them compared to 19 percent of women. 

“A higher proportion of men (15%) than women (4%) reported having two or more sexual partners in the 12 months prior to the survey. Of those with more than one partner in the last 12 months, 24% of women and 45% of men reported using a condom during their last sexual intercourse,” the report said.

Demographically, wealthier, educated women and those living in cities were more likely to have had more than two sexual partners in the previous year.

In terms of age, the 20-24 demographic had the highest percentage (5.8 percent) of sexual partners, followed by 15-29, 30-39, and women in their forties (2.4 percent).

The same was true for men, with wealthier, more educated men reporting more sexual partners than their poorer counterparts.

In terms of age, men between the ages of 20 and 29 had the highest percentage (21.5 percent) of sexual partners, followed by men in their thirties (17 percent), forties (13 percent), and teenagers aged 15 to 19. (5.3 percent).

The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) has approved Iteuzi Wa Chale as the Junior Secondary School Fasihi book.

The book, authored by renowned Kiswahili and linguistics teacher Dr. Assumpta Matei, will be available at Text Book Centre and other leading stores.

“Headteachers, parents and learners can access copies from all leading bookshops across the country following the KICD approval,” said the book publisher One Planet Limited in a statement.

The book is one of the telenovela releases for the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) rolled out at the Junior Secondary School (JSS) examination.

KICD had earlier published a list of approved course books to be used in Junior Secondary Schools.

The agency detailed student and teacher’s books to be used for the Grade Seven class once learning resumes on January 23.

At least one person was killed and five others, including Kenya Defence Forces soldiers, were injured in an al-Shabaab attack on the Lamu-Ijara-Garissa road on Tuesday.

According to witnesses and police, the gunmen targeted a vehicle convoy.

The victims were construction workers on Lapsset Road.

The police said that the injured were later evacuated and flown to the hospital.

According to police, the attack occurred around 8 a.m., making it the second such incident in a week.

According to police, the incident occurred about seven kilometres from Bodhai Police Station/GSU camp in Garissa County, as the group was making their way to their work stations from a Chinese camp where they were staying.

A fuel tanker was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) from the front, killing one occupant on the spot.

According to police, the second vehicle, a Foton Tipper, was hit from behind, and the third was a pickup truck that was attacked and burned down.

The responding security team was then injured.

According to witnesses, at least four of them were injured.

Northeastern Regional Police Commander George Seda said that the attackers fled into a bush after the attack.

“We have sent more personnel to help in pursuing the attackers,” he said.

The incident comes just a week after a similar roadside explosive killed four Kenya National Highways Authority (Kenha) engineers when their vehicle hit an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on the Lapsset road in neighbouring Bura East.

The team was on its way from Garissa to Hailey Chinese Camp, then to Bura East.