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[Shoba Gatimu @shobanes]

Hapo F3 🥹🥹 I'd bury my face so deep between your butt cheeks, they would bring the most powerful crane in world and they'd never be able to separate us. 😮‍💨 I'd give up fresh air just to sniff your girl parts. 🫠

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

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

https://t.co/7wQQdueghe

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

Our drive is to make sure that term ends in 2027.

[Blaze Officiel @B3laze]

In kikuyu households Dolly Parton came only second to Queen Jane

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

This is a constitutional coup against the TSC.
Article 237 gives the independent Teachers Service Commission exclusive power to appoint teachers, not @StateHouseKenya, not the Speaker, not Members of Parliament & political brokers.
@HonWetangula’s admission that letters now come from @StateHouseKenya is an open confession of executive capture. It turns jobs into patronage, locks out qualified graduates, and reduces @TSC_KE to a rubber stamp.
Hoarding and dishing out these letters through MPs is institutionalised corruption.
@TSC_KE

[Lemon Ginger👮‍♂️©️ @lannix_1]

Ukikunywa soda yako baridi lakini unaogope kra officials wasikuone

[Lydia Owuor @itslydiaowuor]

The River and The Source.
Christopher Nolan anaweza fanya ibreak record ya Box Office in the opening weekend.

[Bobo @WambuiMuchiri_]

Season 2 was shot on location in this beautiful country of ours, more reason to watch this as a Kenyan 🇰🇪

[Dr. C @chao_mbogho]

Excellent double entendre. 😀

[KIPRONO @Onorpik]

That's what Okiya Omtatah calls odious debt, and we must support his push by all means.

[goma @soigomaa]

"violence isn't the answer" only gets said when oppressed people start fighting back, not when the oppression is happening

[L3wi.s @Mnauwoo]

Nottingham wakitrain hio side ingine gusto alikua anafunzwa na sammyro kudance kama austin muigai....so doleful😂

[wolf. 🐺 @EnosMcManni]

Interest free, comes with negotiable payment terms and sometimes written off as bad debt. What a concept.

[Track & Field Gazette @TrackGazette]

THE FIRST MAN IN HISTORY TO BREAK 2 HOURS IN A MARATHON!!!🤯🤯🤯

Sabastian Sawe 🇰🇪 has just shattered the World Record at the London Marathon, running 1:59:30!!!

He makes history as the first man to officially break 2 hours in the marathon.

Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 in his debut ran 1:59:41 to become 2nd fastest alltime, while Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 finished in 2:00:28.

All under the previous World Record.

[Mumbi @NotYourNyukwaKE]

It's shameless and really disappointing that people can sit openingly ,confess to serious crimes and we just move on like it's nothing.

[Smartluck🇰🇪 @JoelKamiru]

@coolkid__8 The pendulum of his mind swings from nonsense to stupidity

[Wamutahi @Son_of_Laikipia]

A government blogger is a virtual goon😔.

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Eritrean satirical cartoonist Biniam Solomon aka Cobra has been freed from prison after spending 15 years in detention without charge.

Biniam, now in his early 60s, was arrested in the Eritrean capital Asmara nearly 25 years ago but was never tried.
https://t.co/ATgAJb20v1

[Maya Amolo 💋 @mayaamolo]

Sakaja gonna hear me call him a bitch ass nigga in dolby atmos surround sound 🙏🏾

[Amandeep Jagde @AmandeepJagde]

Nairobi's drainage system is evaporation.