Ndung'u Benson

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@TheStarKenya This is humility,as you didn't consider flying out to foreign lands to bench but decided to visit Kiambu....

[KTN News @KTNNewsKE]

THE STANDARD GROUP PLC
PRESS STATEMENT
Nairobi, Kenya
September 1, 2026

STANDARD GROUP CONDEMNS ABDUCTION OF ITS SENIOR EDITOR, DEMANDS HIS IMMEDIATE AND SAFE RELEASE

The Standard Group PLC confirms that shortly before 9:20pm this evening, our Associate Editor, Alex Kiprotich, was abducted along the Gilgil–Nakuru road while travelling to Nakuru. We do not know where he is as we issue this statement.

This is the second time in as many months that Mr Kiprotich has been targeted. On 27 June 2026, armed men in a Toyota Probox a vehicle model repeatedly linked to enforced disappearances of government critics in Kenya, tried to seize him from his car as he drove to work in Nakuru. He got away by locking his doors and driving off. That attempt came days after President William Ruto publicly criticised this Group over its coverage, and our own investigations traced the vehicle to the National Police Service's Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau. No one has ever been held to account for it.

Tonight, that threat has been carried out.
We do not believe this is a coincidence. Mr Kiprotich has been at the forefront of our editorial output, including reporting that has scrutinised the conduct of the State, and tonight's abduction bears all the hallmarks of a targeted attack on a journalist for doing his job.

We believe it may be linked to elements within the State seeking to intimidate this Group into silence. If that is confirmed, this is not simply a crime against one man. It is an assault on the Constitution of Kenya, on the freedoms of expression and of the media guaranteed under Articles 33 and 34, and on the right of every Kenyan to independent information.

We say this plainly and without equivocation: the Standard Group holds the State responsible for Alex Kiprotich's safety and his life, and for anything that happens to him while he remains missing. Protecting the life and liberty of every citizen is the State's first duty, not an afterthought, and Mr Kiprotich's safety now rests entirely in its hands.

We are demanding:
1. The immediate, safe and unconditional release of Alex Kiprotich.

2. A prompt, transparent and independent investigation into his abduction, and into why no one has ever answered for the attempt of June 27, 2026.

3. Real, visible guarantees that journalists in Kenya will be protected, in keeping with commitments the President has already made publicly and has so far failed to honour.

We are calling on the Independent Policing Oversight Authority, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, the Law Society of Kenya, the Media Council of Kenya, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and everyone who values a free press in this country, to demand answers alongside us until Mr Kiprotich is found safe.

We will keep the public informed as we learn more, and we will not let this matter quietly fade from view.

CHAACHA MWITA,
GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER,
THE STANDARD GROUP PLC

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@georgenjoroge_ Get it correct,the facility is under receiveship management not the church.

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@MutemiWaKiama

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@AdamMaina_ They're finally together in heaven...Rest easy Dolly

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@baroswahjr He's just mad of the religion and not God

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@louisedbegin Naah nah, square root for 36,81 100 etc don't add up

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@HeemMufc I'm glad he understands PPP projects are not funded directly by the government rather it's a partnership between public and private investors....

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@citizentvkenya Maneno tamu tamu,.....bure kabisa....mole within.

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@ivymuthe She belongs to the streets,unfortunately they're traumatising this children at middle of night.

[Murima Maestro🇰🇪 @MurimaMaestro]

“Kama Raila hakutusaidia, Oburu anatusaidia na nini?”

This clergy man is asking a pertinent question. Why should Luhyas be told to rally behind Oburu Odinga who’s a Luo and not be led by one of their own?

It’s time Luhyas set themselves free from Luos. Nani hana kwao.

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@GlitteringAnge I wholly agrree with Ngumo Kenya requires a not business minded President & the only President of that calibre was the late Mwai Kibaki and currently we have H.E Kalonzo Musyoka.

[George Njoroge @georgenjoroge_]

In 2013, a Form Three girl called Lilian Gacheri woke up at 3 a.m. and walked the whole day in her school uniform looking for a miracle.

She needed over Sh60,000 in 3 days or she would miss her exams.

Her mother had nothing.

But that day Uhuru Kenyatta was holding a rally in Chuka.

Lilian tried reaching him. Security chased her away. She tried again. They pushed her back.

Then Uhuru noticed this schoolgirl refusing to leave.

He ordered the same security men to bring her to him.

She told him her story.

Uhuru took a piece of paper, wrote down her details, put it in his shirt pocket and simply told her:

“Go back to school.”

She didn’t believe him.

She returned to school expecting another politician’s forgotten promise.

The following morning, the headteacher called her.

Every shilling of her school fees had been paid.

She had also been enrolled into The Kenyatta Trust.

From that day, Lilian never worried about school fees again.

The Trust carried that little girl all the way to university. In 2018, she graduated with a degree in psychology and went on to build a life and career of her own.

Think about that.

A girl walked an entire day desperately looking for Sh60,000.

She returned with her whole future paid for.

Uhuru didn’t give her something to survive that Friday.

He gave her a reason to never have to beg again.

Sometimes changing a country is not about changing millions of lives at once.

Sometimes it is simply noticing one frightened child in a crowd that everybody else keeps pushing away.

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@CKyobutungi Instead of empty affordable houses,state ought to hire QC's in volumes and deploy them in local markets where they check content consumed is safe and that will easen medical bills have a healthy Nation

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@CKyobutungi We just need to a reset to humans who we're supposed to be by caring on one another & get to know karma is real that infectious food you sent to market will be consumed by your relative in town and you end up fundraising for their treatments

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@K24Tv Why don't @KephisKe work with county governments to ensure all food retailed at our markets are chemical free just as they check on exports.....else profits hungry entrepreneurs and farmers will continue positioning our plates

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸These are great.🇺🇸

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@kamauwaruhiu I third you on this one,Wanjingi has clear manifesto economy that's ailing our Jamhuri

[Ndung'u Benson @bensir101]

@kamauwaruhiu 🤣🤣😂they're tomboless