Yesterday was Father’s Day. I did what I always do, walked around Kingeero greeting the old guard, the uncles who watched me grow up.
I got to Uncle Mugo’s gate with a bottle of Kenya Cane lemon and ginger.
The man lit up like it was Christmas. We walked to his farm, the way we always do, and somewhere between the maize and the silence, he told me something I wasn’t ready for.
He said when his first wife died in childbirth, the Severely disabled baby survived.
He didn’t hold the baby.
He Didn’t name it.
“I wanted a happy family,” he told me, eyes on the ground, “not a crippled burden.”
He signed the papers at Pumwani and left the baby there.
Walked out of that hospital a free man, he thought.
18 years passed. Two wives, no more children.
The kind of life that looks complete from the outside.
Then on what would have been his anniversary, he went to lay flowers on his first wife’s grave.
The photo on the headstone had been changed.
Same woman, but younger. Brighter. Like she’d been pulled out of a memory he didn’t know existed.
He turned around. A girl in a wheelchair was watching him.
Her face was his late wife’s face, exactly, like the years had skipped straight from mother to daughter without stopping anywhere in between.
“Hi, Dad,” she said. No anger in it. No tears. Just calm, like she’d rehearsed it a thousand times and finally got to use it.
“I’m Muthoni. I’m glad we finally met.”
Mrs. Wainaina raised her.
The same Mrs. Wainaina who taught half of Kingeero primary, who knew Mugo and his wife back when they were just two young people with a future.
She adopted the baby nobody wanted, got her the treatment she needed, told her the truth early and often, and somehow, God knows how never forgot the date of a wedding she wasn’t even invited to.
Muthoni grew up knowing exactly who her father was and exactly why he left.
Mugo didn’t even know she’d survived.
He’s 18 years late to a relationship that’s already fully formed without him in it.
He told me they’re trying now, visits, phone calls, the slow work of two strangers who share a face and nothing else.
He says it’s awkward. Heavy. Most days he doesn’t know what to say to her.
But he showed up. And he keeps showing up.
That’s his only child. His second wife never had one.
I walked home with my bottle half-finished and a heaviness I didn’t bring with me.
Some men spend 18 years running from one decision, only to find out the person they ran from was the one keeping count, waiting for them to stop.
Saddest Father’s Day I’ve had in a while. Not mine, his.
But it followed me home anyway.
My dad has always been present in my life. When I got my first job, he continued supporting me and even paid my rent for a whole year. He still supports me to this day.
Happy Father’s Day to one of the best dads in the world my father ❤️🥂
🚨 BREAKING: Sacked Employees Can't Demand Salaries Until Retirement - And Employers Must Prove Misconduct, Not Mere Suspicion!
In a major decision likely to shake both HR offices and employees across Kenya, the Employment and Labour Relations Court in AIC Litein Hospital v Paul Bett [2026] upheld a finding of unfair termination but dramatically slashed the massive award granted by the lower court. The Accounts Clerk had been dismissed after alleged irregularities involving transport reimbursements for a paediatric clinic, with the hospital insisting that funds had been paid to 70 participants despite only 34 allegedly attending. The central question was whether the employee was actually responsible and whether the allegations had been proved. While the trial court had awarded damages stretching into the future, including compensation up to retirement, the employer challenged both liability and the colossal awards.
Lady Justice Anna Ngibuini Mwaure held that although the disciplinary process substantially complied with section 41 of the Employment Act, the employer had failed to establish valid and substantive grounds for dismissal under sections 43 and 45. Contradictory evidence from the hospital's own witnesses left the Court unconvinced that the employee had caused the loss. But the Judge also delivered another bombshell: unfair termination is not a jackpot. The Court struck out compensation for future salaries, retirement benefits, medical allowance and most leave claims, reiterating that no employment is permanent and damages cannot run to retirement age. The employee was left with one month's notice pay, seven months' compensation and limited accrued benefits totaling Kshs.577,775.07.
The message from the Court is a double-edged warning. Employers cannot simply shout "gross misconduct" and expect judges to rubber-stamp dismissals; accusations must be backed by evidence. Equally, employees should abandon the dangerous illusion that every unfair termination translates into millions in future earnings. Kenyan courts are increasingly drawing a line between genuine compensation and unjust enrichment. The jurisprudence emerging is clear: misconduct must be proved, and compensation must remain within the confines of the Employment Act. For employers, proper investigations are now indispensable. For employees, realistic claims matter. Litigation is not a retirement plan, and suspicion is not proof.
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If I put Ruto in a coffin, DCI and NIS will find me within 24 hours even if I do away with my phone. But the same people cant find a man who kidnapped my niece! Its been 5 days Jameni!
They want to spend KSh 375 BILLION expanding JKIA.
That's enough money to build an entire new international airport from scratch.
For context: China built the massive Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport for just KSh 285 Billion.
This is your money. Demand better.
The High Court has declared SBM Bank’s attempt to auction a widow’s home illegal, finding the mortgage they relied on was void, defective, and fundamentally unreliable. The Court held that the charge could not stand in law.
The bank claimed the deceased had taken loans of about KShs 11.15 million (KShs 9.15M overdraft and KShs 2M term loan), later restructured to around KShs 14.6 million, all allegedly secured using the matrimonial home. But the land was jointly owned, and the Court found the charge lacked valid spousal consent. The widow denied signing any documents and the bank failed to prove otherwise, even relying on a “mortgage” that referenced laws not yet in force.
And it gets worse. A bank official allegedly cornered the widow in an ICU while her husband was critically ill and pressured her to sign a letter admitting the debt under threat of losing her home. The Court called this unconscionable, threw out the letter, and stopped the sale entirely exposing a disturbing mix of coercion, weak documentation, and reckless banking conduct.