Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪

Civil Engineer | IEK Committee member | CPA-K | Director NENAP | Pastoralist's son | Arsenal FC | Political and Legal Polymath | Future Borana Statesman🇰🇪🇪🇹

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

Honoured to serve Engineers as a member of the IEK committee for capacity building and leadership development. Special thanks to the North Eastern branch for giving me the platform to serve and get seen. @TheIEK @IekNorthEastern @Eng_ErickOhaga @fatahabdi25

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

Just witnessed a drunk driver horribly crash into a biker who was riding on the road shoulder. If your kin just got hit at Eastern Bypass, it was Vehicle Registration Number KBY 013L.... terrible case of hit and run!
I have reported the same to the Police.
@ntsa_kenya @PoliceKE

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

To be clear, KETRB graduates are skilled, but foundational Engineering thresholds exist for a reason.
KETRB itself exists for a reason, doesn't it?

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

Some homework for the incoming IEK Council: EBK seems to be considering equating BTech/KETRB/IET qualifications to 'EBK Graduate Engineer' status after added studies or conversion programmes. Here is why this is a serious policy failure
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[Thuranira @Thuranira_1]

A student has been denied permanent entry to the Kenya School of Law even after pursuing both a Diploma and an LL.B degree. Prudence Kabura Ng'ang'a scored a C plain in her 2014 KCSE but refused to let one exam define her future. She went on to earn a Diploma in Law with distinction and later an LL.B from the University of Nairobi. Despite this clear academic progression, the Kenya School of Law rejected her application to the Advocates Training Programme solely because she did not meet the “C+” mean grade requirement from over a decade ago.

The High Court has now dismissed her case, ruling that the law remains strict on entry criteria. Under the Kenya School of Law Act, applicants must have a C+ mean grade and a B plain in English or Kiswahili, regardless of later academic success. The case raises a hard question,should a single teenage exam permanently block the path of a resilient, proven legal scholar?

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

The lesson is clear:
If foundational competence matters, enforce it at admission, not after additional training or “conversion programmes.”
Professional integrity cannot be retroactively patched.

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

Delayed or retroactive gate-keeping undermines the very purpose of professional regulation. It creates inconsistent standards, opens the door for incompetence and ultimately erodes public confidence in the profession.

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

Why does this matter for EBK?
BTech/KETRB programmes were never designed to meet full Engineering degree thresholds.
Equating them after the fact undermines the logic of admission standards and the integrity of the profession. Again, public trust!

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

Engineering avoids this trap.
Maths, Physics, Analytical skills etc. are enforced at admission, not at professional exit.
Once you graduate from an accredited Engineering degree, EBK does not revisit KCSE.
The filter already worked.

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

Why a policy failure?
Gate-keeping was enforced at the wrong stage.
Students were admitted, trained, graduated, then blocked.
That is regulatory ambush, not quality assurance.

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

Look at the KSL cases: law graduates completed LL.B degrees but were denied Advocates Training Programme entry after graduation due to KCSE grades.
Courts upheld KSL, is this legally correct? I have no idea.
But for sure this is a policy failure.

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

Engineers are held in high regard partly because they meet high foundational standards from the start.
If EBK equates KETRB/BTech qualifications retroactively, public trust in engineers as a rigorously vetted profession may be eroded.

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

Engineering is not aspirational, it is foundational.
If analytical thresholds are not met at entry, conversion later doesn’t fix that.
Standards delayed are standards diluted.

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

BTech/KETRB programmes were never designed to meet full Engineering degree thresholds. Therefore, equating them after the fact undermines the logic of having admission standards in the first place.

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

EBK seems to be considering equating BTech/KETRB qualifications to EBK Graduate Engineer status after added studies or conversion programmes.
Engineers should disagree with this as it is a serious policy failure.

[Halkano Roba Duba.🇰🇪 @Robashizzle]

@ScholarshipfPhd Hi.

[ROBA & ASSOCIATES LLP @AssociatesRoba]

Damages For Wrongful Death Claims Are Payable Even Without Criminal Convictions.

In conjunction with the initial legal alert, on how the Court of Appeal has ended the tired excuse of “investigations are ongoing” in Sharma v AG & Others [2025] KECA 1470. The second limb of this judgment is even more consequential.

The Court has now affirmed, that claims for wrongful death against the State can stand firmly on their own and victims are entitled to compensation notwithstanding the absence of a criminal conviction.

The Court declared the killing of Mr. Bunty Shah by State agents unlawful and unconstitutional, referred the matter back to the High Court for immediate assessment of damages, and held that the child of the deceased had been deprived of parental care. It rejected the High Court’s reluctance to intervene, insisting that constitutional responsibility cannot be suspended until someone is charged or convicted. In the Court’s words and conduct, civil and constitutional liability is not dependent on criminal proceedings.

The State bears independent constitutional responsibility for unlawful killings, even as individual officers may or not face criminal liability. The Court has clarified that victims and their families need not wait for investigations or endless prosecutions before seeking redress.

Where the facts establish State involvement, the courts will move directly to assess damages.

The take-home :
Victims of police killings need not to wait for convictions, nor wait in line at for the ‘presidential panel’ to disburse their damages. The courts are open, the Constitution is clear, and this judgment provides the blueprint; declare the violations, award damages, and make the State answer for the lives it unlawfully takes. Period!

This decision also brings us to another elephant in the room; the essence of presidential panel of experts compensation of victims of demonstrations and public protests. That purported panel, however well intentioned, is constitutionally misguided. @NelsonHavi @joshuamalidzo @MiracleMudeyi @MikeSonko @robabdirizak201 @MutandaLaw @WMutunga

[Hon. Aden Duale, EGH @HonAdenDuale]

He was a beneficiary of the corruption associated with vetting of kenyan during his time at provincial administration contrary to Article 12 of the constitution. Kenyans are equal before God and the law .

[Tana and Athi Rivers Development Authority (TARDA) @TardaKE]

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1: We're thrilled to announce the launch of the Kokona Community Borehole Project on Thursday, 16th January 2025, in Garsen Constituency, Tana River County! #KokonaBoreholeLaunch @KeTreasury @JohnMbadiN @harsama_kello @Roba_Liban_Duba

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#Matchday

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

This is surreal. The west is in festive mode. Xmas trees, carols, baubles, ordering hams & turkeys, restaurants are full as are streets - people with purpose hunting gifts, en route to parties. While in the place of Christ’s birth, people are starving and being killed in their tens of thousands, likely hundreds of thousands.

[Global News Monitor @GlobalNewsMontr]

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