January 16 - Kenya makes an international food appeal due to drought-induced famine in certain parts of the country [3]
January 23 -
Amos Kimunya is appointed the Minister of Trade. Kimunya resigned from the post of Minister of Finance in July 2008 due to
Grand Regency Scandal. Former minister of Trade
Uhuru Kenyatta is now appointed for the vacant position of Minister of Finance.[4]
May 1 - A government official was forced to cut short his speech and abandon the May Day rally as angry workers hurled stones at dignitaries in protest over the government's refusal to deal with difficult living conditions [13]
June 12 - The
Othaya Police Chief, John Nzau was shot dead. Fellow policemen were arrested as suspects.[15]
June 16 - An oil tanker fire kills at least four and injures nearly 50 people at
Kapokyek village near
Kericho. The victims were siphoning fuel from the tanker that had fallen off the road.[16]
July 21 - A collision of two buses in
Siapei along the
Narok -
Mau Mahiu road causes 22 fatalities [18]
July 23 - The
SEACOM cable becomes operational, raising hopes of higher speed and lower cost internet connections in Kenya.[19]
July 30 - Kenyan cabinet announced that no special tribunal will be formed to handle the 2009 post-election crisis, and that the cases will be dealt in local courts instead[20]
August
August 1 - A small airplane belonging to
AIM-Air crashes into a flat in Nairobi's
Highrise estate, while approaching the
Wilson Airport, resulting in one fatality [21]
August 23 - A bus and a truck collide near
Gilgil, resulting in 16 deaths [23]
August 24 - The Kenyan census in 2009 is initiated [24]
August 24- Long-distance buses and
matatus are banned for entering the Nairobi CBD, in order to reduce traffic congestions [25]
August 27 - Parliamentary by-elections were held in the constituencies of
Shinyalu and
Bomachoge.
ODM retained the Shinyalu seat, the new MP is
Justus Kizito, replacing the deceased
Charles Lugano. In Bomachoge,
Simon Ogari of ODM narrowly beat the 2007 winner
Joel Onyancha of
PNU. The Bomachoge seat was vacated after the 2007 Elections at the constituency were nullified due to irregularities.[26] For the first time in Kenya, the
ballot boxes were transparent.[27]
September
September 30 -
Aaron Ringera resigns from the position of the director of the
Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) due to pressure.[28] He had been reappointed as the director of KACC on 31 August 2009, sparking mixed reactions [29]
October
October 4 - Fourteen people die when a
matatu and a truck collided in
Kericho[30]
October 20 - A building collapsed in
Kiambu, killing several people [31]
October 27 -
Mungiki chairman
Maina Njenga was acquitted after murder charges on him were withdrawn for lack of evidence [32]
November
November 5 - Mungiki spokesman David Gitau Njuguna was shot dead in Nairobi by unknown assailants.[33]
April 3–5 - At the
2009 Adelaide Sevens Kenya reaches its first ever
World Sevens Series main cup final, but is defeated by
South Africa in the final 7-26. At the group stage, Kenya had beaten South Africa.
April 3–5 -
Carl Tundo wins the 2009
Safari Rally. It was his second Safari title, the previous victory was in 2004.