Kevin Onani

Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
Managing Partner Ligami Onani & Associates Advocates.

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Email: [email protected]

[Potato @Potatxxl]

In 1987 Nike had $600 million in revenue. Phil Knight was stuck. The company was losing ground to Reebok, burning cash, and nobody inside could agree on what to do next.

He brought in Les Brown to speak to his executive team.

Brown was found abandoned in Miami at 6 weeks old. Labeled mentally retarded at age 9. Failed fifth grade twice. Had no degree, no connections, no money.

By 1987 he was the highest-paid motivational speaker in America. Marriott paid him. McDonald's paid him. General Electric paid him. Fortune 500 companies flew him in because one session with Les Brown changed how their people think.

Nike's revenue crossed $1 billion two years later.

Brown built all of it on one thing he learned by losing everything.

He made a promise to his adopted mother to buy her a house. Worked years to get the down payment. Found a home on the water in Miami. Signed without a title search.

A registered letter arrived weeks later. A $12,000 lien against the property. The previous owner's debt. 30 days to pay or lose the house.

He lost the house. Lost 23 pounds in the process. Packed his mother back into the old neighborhood while the same neighbors who watched them leave watched them return.

He stood in the driveway unloading furniture with his head down crying.

His mother said hold your head up. You have nothing to be ashamed of.

For weeks he couldn't move. Couldn't think. Couldn't plan.

He said the mind works like a gas pump. You cannot start pumping until the previous bill clears. Anger doesn't clear. Humiliation doesn't clear. They sit on the lever and nothing moves.

He told the story of a man everyone in Columbus called Chicken Man.

Woke up at 3am to a house on fire. Got out the window. Heard his wife and children screaming. Ran back. The flames were too hot. He could not get in.

The screaming stopped.

His brother-in-law arrived and started hitting him. Calling him a coward over and over.

When people pulled him off they asked if he was all right.

Chicken Man looked at them and started making the sounds of a chicken. He never spoke again. Drove around the city for the rest of his life with a toy chicken on his car and a photo of his wife in a baby carriage.

Brown said most people walking around are carrying something exactly like that. An event from years ago still running their entire life.

80% of the people you tell your story to don't care. The other 20% are glad it happened to you and not them.

The question is never what happened. The question is what are you going to do about it.

The lecture is free on YouTube. Just over an hour.

Almost nobody has watched it as a precise diagnosis of why capable people stay exactly where they are.

[Attabo Legacy @AyatuAttab55220]

Another day to try again 💼

[Wamutahi @Son_of_Laikipia]

This speech is five minutes of maximum injection. Three phase electricity yoote directed at one point.👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿💉💉💉🔥.

[kuno @kunoo]

I am unstoppable.

[One hard Truth @one_hardTruth]

4 people you have to forgive:

[Kevin Onani @OnaniKM]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[steve Biko osur @wuodosur]

EACC capturing Nyamira Deputy Clerk and Director of Finance Leonard Nyamasege, hidden in a ceiling. Breach of procurement procedures, KES30M claim .

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

Sam Gituku: The decision about Safaricom is by a three-judge bench, why Justice Kiage?

Nelson Havi: The other day, the Court of Appeal rescinded a decision it had written because that decision was delivered on the wrong application. The two other judges said they were not aware of the decision but one judge had written it #CitizenDayBreak

[Ahmednasir Abdullahi SC @ahmednasirlaw]

Yesterday on behalf of a client we filed the first Marex tort claim in Kenya. We filed a suit for Kshs 5.7 billion (about US$ 45 million) against a leading commercial bank in the East African region. The Marex tort was developed by the English Supreme Court and states that where a third party gatecrashes into a suit between the parties at the stage of executing a decree and tries to help the judgment debtor delay or escape execution, the decree holder has a claim for damages againt the said gatecrasher. The Marex tort insulates the court decree againt "sponsored, mercenaries and robbers barons" hired by the judgment debtor to defeat the decree issued by court.

[Kevin Onani @OnaniKM]

So the impeachment was flawed.

The Deputy President was wronged — condemned unheard.

Compensation is due.

But if the process was flawed, why were its consequences allowed to stand?

Hii ni maajabu.

Constitutional magic. 🎩😂

#ConstitutionalMagi
#RuleOfLawKE
#CondemnedUnheard

[Kevin Onani @OnaniKM]

Kwani watu wanatumia nini skuizi

[SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst]

Sisi Kama Watu WaTutam...

[Elias kabere 🇰🇪 @kijanaGachagua]

Hii kitu hunimaliza mbaya😂😂😂

[Kevin Onani @OnaniKM]

The court has just told Gachagua: 'Kindly proceed outside, locate your wounds, and commence the licking exercise. However, we've provided KSh 50 million to facilitate the healing process. please move on.

#Gachagua
#CourtRuling

[𝗩𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱 @vinguard254]

Who is this man?he seems to know a lot!

[Kevin Onani @OnaniKM]

Why are you going through corners? Tell us plainly whether you have agreed to risk bringing Ebola into the country.

[Dr. Ouma Oluga, OGW @fnoluga]

Kenya’s Health System is strong and resilient.

[Kevin Onani @OnaniKM]

Wishing all our Muslim brothers and sisters a blessed and joyous Eid filled with peace, happiness, prosperity, and countless blessings.

May this special occasion strengthen the values of unity, compassion, and kindness within our communities.

Eid Mubarak from us.

#EidMubarak

[Kevin Onani @OnaniKM]

The only time you are guaranteed to lose is the moment you decide to quit.

As long as you keep moving, the outcome is still being written.”

[Boniface @kilundeezy]

How can you purchase the SHA system for 104 billion and then sell kenya pipeline with all its assets for 106 billion_Omtata

[Kevin Onani @OnaniKM]

Clarity is underrated.
Confusion delays action.
Direction creates confidence.

[Kevin Onani @OnaniKM]

Children are not trophies to be won in court.
They are human beings to be protected.
Under Kenyan law, the Best Interests of the Child come first — always.

Not ego.
Not revenge.
Not pride.

The law does not ask: “Who is winning?”
It asks: “What protects the child?”
#ChildrenLaw