Moses Kuria arrest: Top lawyers take on each other over police brutality  - Kuria was arrested in Nairobi for allegedly assaulting a woman at a local media house studios  - Police teargassed his colleagues who visited him at Kilimani station  - Lawyer Nelson Havi reminded the politicians of their past utterances and support for injustices City lawyers Nelson Havi and Kipchumba Murkomen are tearing each other apart over arrest of Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria. The heated debate was sparked off by Havi's remarks that reminded Kuria's colleagues Alice Wahome and Ndindi Nyoro  According to the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) presidential candidate, no one should celebrate blatant disregard of the law even when injustice is meted on one's enemy.   

10 LEADERSHIP QUALITIES TO LOOK FOR WHEN HIRING A MANAGER Managers have the power to make or break their organizations. While great leaders encourage their employees to reach their full potential and help their organizations surpass their goals, terrible dictators discourage workers to the point they want to jump ship. And many of them do. According to the  Wall Street Journal , nearly half of employees who leave jobs do so to get away from their bosses. Since you don’t want to lose your best employees, it's critical that you do everything you can to ensure you fill managerial positions with the right people in the first place. As you go about your search for a new manager, keep in mind that great ones usually possess these 10 leadership qualities. 1. Honesty The moment a team stops believing their leader is telling them the truth, things start to fall apart. Why should workers follow their bosses with any level of confidence if they’ve come to f...

• According to the Dedan Kimathi Foundation, the grave is located at the Kamiti Maximum Prison, Nairobi. • Dedan died in February 1957 at the age of 37 after being convicted and executed in for murder and terrorism by the British colonial government. The government has located a burial site where the body of the iconic Mau Mau fighter Dedan Kimathi Wachiuri was buried at. Image:   COURTEY The government has located a burial site where the body of the iconic Mau Mau fighter  Dedan Kimathi Wachiuri  was buried at, the daughter of the Field Marshall Evelyne Wanjugu Kimathi has confirmed. The Dedan Kimathi Foundation on Friday said the grave had been located at the Kamiti Maximum Prison, Nairobi. Wanjugu who is also the foundation's CEO said the news is not only a relief to the family but also to the larger freedom struggle heroes fraternity.   Wanjugu said they are now waiting for orders from the Chief Justice David Maraga on excavati...

Rachael Ruto commercializes her hobby so as to help women Mama Rachel Ruto the annual Cross Stitch International Exhibition [Source/twitter/@ssjjkh] Mama Rachel Ruto, the wife to Deputy President William Ruto, has commercialized one of her hobbies to help several women and people living with disabilities. ADVERTISEMENT "I was delighted to officially open the annual Cross Stitch International Exhibition that began at the Safaricom Michael Joseph Center," Rachel   tweeted . Through a series of tweets on Saturday, Mama Rachel started that she had officially opened an exhibition where people could buy cross-stitched pieces of art. She invited Kenyans to purchase priceless pieces as they engage with the project that is mainly aimed at empowering women. "Cross stitching is one of my long time hobbies. I was greatly honored to witness a special auction of the priced pieces. Proceeds will go towards supporting women who stitched them while in prison, persons living...

Museveni rose to power through the barrel of the gun and on top of a tank. That was more than thirty years ago, long before more than eighty per cent of Ugandans living today were born. He rose to power proclaiming himself a member of a "new breed of African leaders." He repeatedly criticized other African leaders on the grounds that they were dictators who "clang to power" and could only relinquish power through death. He asserted that his only interest was to obliterate dictatorship from Ugandan politics--which had been introduced into Uganda by Obote I, Idi Amin, Yusuf Lule, Godfrey Binaisa, Paul Muwanga, Obote II, and Tito Okelo. More than thirty years later, he has entrenched his name in the history of Uganda as the biggest dictator of them all. Secondly, Museveni rose to power proclaiming that he was a Marxist. At the University of Dar es Salasm, where he studied political science at the undergraduate level, he wrote a paper based on Frantz Fanon...

Bobi Wine hits back at Museveni over 'enemy of Uganda' remarks • President Museveni said Bobi Wine went to America and said that people should not  invest in Uganda. • But Bobi wine says Museveni has destroyed institutions and rule them through the barrel of the gun. Bobi Wuine during campaigns in Arua Municipality on August 13, 2018. Image:   COURTESY Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine has hit back at President Yoweri Museveni who for calling him an enemy of Uganda'. Wine, well know as Robert Kyagulani on his twitter said Museveni is a 'liar running down the country. Museveni had in a BBC interview said Wine was an 'enemy of progress' to Ugandans. In the interview, Museveni dismissed claims that he was using force to run down the country. He said his government is not repressive, but was dealing with Bobi Wine as an enemy. "Bobi Wine went to America and said that people should not come invest in Uganda...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has poured cold water on Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), calling it “a big sham and a rip-off.” Speaking at the sidelines of an international seminar at Kigali, Kagame said it was “extremely disturbing” that Kenya’s ruling Jubilee Regime would escalate the costs of the SGR to astronomical levels so as to fleece Kenyan taxpayers of their sweat “for the benefit of a few people at th e top.” “They are now trying to excite Kenyans with the refurbished trains that weres used in China in 1950s, running on diesel engines. Terrible!” Kagame said. Tanzania’s SGR is four times longer than Kenya’s but only two times as expensive. Rwanda and Uganda recently shunned the Kenyan SGR, choosing instead to connect their countries to a railway line running from the Tanzanian port of Tanga through to Kigali and then up to the Ugandan capital, Kampala. High level corruption being perpetrated by Kenyan top officials, leading to inflated costs, was mainly blamed for the ...

In this file photo taken on June 8, 2000 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe clenches his fist as Zanu PF party praises him at a rally in the village of Mupandawana, some 230 km South of the capital Harare. Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe with an iron fist from 1980 to 2017, has died aged 95, the country's president announced on September 6, 2019. / AFP / Odd ANDERSEN Former Zimbabwean President Robert Gabriel Mugabe on Friday passed on at the age of 95, ending the life of one of the most prolific figures in African history. His death is another point of reflection and debate on the complicated legacy of the strongman who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years which were preceded by three decades of independence struggle. The western media preferred to refer him as a tyrant, a dictator, a human rights abuser whose regime “ brought Zimbabwe to its knees”. This article is inspired by the teaching of Nigerian writer  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  who has warned us of the danger of ...

Youth activism beyond borders Odongo wekesa Africa is a youthful population, statistics show that the population of youth and children in Africa is rising. African youth are also among the most disadvantaged in the world. This ranges from economic refugees in Europe all in a bid to try and survive , to communities ravaged by the negative impacts of HIV and Aids to countries getting destroyed by election related conflicts. Conflict which increasing in the continent also affects young people more than any other age bracket. Additionally, In Sub-Saharan Africa, 3 in 5 of the total unemployed are youth (ILO 2006) and on average 72 percent of the youth population live with less than US$2 a day. Africa is also home to between seven to eight million illegal immigrants in the European Union. The contradiction   that is glaring is also that the continent has the highest deposit of natural resources, then why are African youth suffering? In a bid to create lasting change i...