Usuf

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[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

OPINION: Brooms, bayonets and bad economics: Mistaking citizens for municipal workers?

"Nothing creates the illusion of governmental efficiency quite like persuading citizens to perform government services themselves."
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@markgoldbridge @markgoldbridge the negative prat as always.

[Nyamari Law ⚖️ @soulmannik_]

She built a law firm from scratch. Survived a divorce with more grace than most marriages manage. Then she let the wrong man move into her house — and it cost her everything.

Elizabeth Koki Musyoki was 34. An Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, founder of her own HR law consultancy, mother of two. The kind of woman who co-founded a firm with her ex-husband, split from him without a single bitter headline, and kept building anyway.

Then in 2019, at a Westlands club, she met Christian Kadima. Fitness coach. Gym entrepreneur. Charming in the exact way that should've been a warning label.

He had a South African passport. A Nigerian passport under a completely different name. A history of battery charges in South Africa nobody bothered to mention. Red flags don't get much redder than "wanted abroad under an alias," but love is a talented editor.

Within months he'd moved into her home, shared her bank account, even had a desk in her law office. Matching tattoos. The whole performance of forever.

Behind the performance: violence. In September 2020, he assaulted her in her own car so badly she jumped out of a moving vehicle to survive. She filed a police report. Went to the hospital. Took self-defense classes. Found other women he'd hurt and built a support network with them.

And then — the part that should terrify everyone who's ever taken someone back — he apologized his way back in. Proposed in November 2020. She said yes, thinking a ring might tame what therapy clearly hadn't. She kept boundaries. Kept him a "visitor" in his own engagement.

It wasn't enough.

On January 7, 2021, she confronted him about another woman's photos on his phone. Her house help heard a commotion from the bedroom and, because arguments had become routine, didn't intervene. That decision will haunt that household forever, and it isn't her fault — it's a portrait of how normalized his violence had already become.

Koki didn't emerge for work the next morning. By 10am, the house help found her — motionless, bruised, suffocated with her own pillows.

Kadima had already fled in her car, dumped it in Riruta to dodge tracking, lied to a friend for cash, and checked into a lodge under a fake name.

DCI found him in under 24 hours.

He denied murder. Claimed she'd fallen off the bed. The prosecution didn't blink — 14 witnesses, an autopsy showing she'd fought for her life (bruised neck, torn lips, unmistakable signs of a struggle), and a very inconvenient trail of fake names and fled scenes.

March 27, 2025: convicted of murder. May 2, 2025: 40 years in prison.

Koki spent her career protecting other people's rights in the workplace. She built the network, took the classes, filed the reports, set the boundaries — did everything we tell women to do. It still wasn't enough to save her from a man skilled at being forgiven.

Rest in power, Counsel. 🕊️

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@pharrah 😂

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@gugaomaga The lunatic got a clean sweep this time 😂😂

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@TyoleIsaac @LawAfrica_Ltd and @lawAfricaLtd can ably have them delivered. Thanks Isaac

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Indeed 🤦🏾‍♂️

[MALE MABIRIZI Ug &East Africa RULE OF LAW CHAMPION @MaleMabiriziHKK]

SSEKAANA used 1900 & 1954 decisions to send SSEMAKADDE to 2 years in Prison 🤣🤣

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Brian, with all due respect, your take misses the pulse of today’s democratic reality. In this modern era, every communication channel—social media included—is a legitimate platform for civic engagement, especially when fundamental constitutional issues are at stake. The Hon. Justice isn’t just making a “public campaign”; she’s spotlighting systemic flaws that demand public scrutiny because the traditional courts you idolize may lack independence. When institutions lose credibility, citizens rightly use all available means to voice concerns and push for transparency. Your suggestion that grievances belong only in formal petitions ignores the evolving nature of advocacy in a democracy where the people’s voice can’t be confined to broken processes. Are you implying you’re unaware of the institutional challenges shaping our nation’s judicial landscape?

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@Footballtweet @_groak context?

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@qatarairways

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@SimplyUtd Is this “genius” still coaching Sunderland?

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@MaleMabiriziHKK @kiizaeron @NorvicRapheal @SuunaKing_James @yubdenis1 @Mukosearnanth @TonyNatif @munagomba @IsaacSsemakadde @ProscieK Since you @MaleMabiriziHKK is assumed to be the complainant in your initial private prosecution, court should entertain your arguments before a decision on the withdraw is taken.

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@MaleMabiriziHKK @kiizaeron @NorvicRapheal @SuunaKing_James @yubdenis1 @Mukosearnanth @TonyNatif @munagomba @IsaacSsemakadde @ProscieK Protection of Private prosecutions upholds the autonomy of individuals initiating PPs without undue interference from state-appointed prosecutors who will later arbitrarily withdraw cases without proper legal justification.

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@MaleMabiriziHKK @kiizaeron @NorvicRapheal @SuunaKing_James @yubdenis1 @Mukosearnanth @TonyNatif @munagomba @IsaacSsemakadde @ProscieK In State of Punjab v. Surjit Singh & Amor (1967), the Supreme Court upheld the High Court’s reasoning that a Public Prosecutor cannot withdraw a case initiated by a private Complainant if the complainant objects to such withdraw.

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@MaleMabiriziHKK @kiizaeron @NorvicRapheal @SuunaKing_James @yubdenis1 @Mukosearnanth @TonyNatif @munagomba @IsaacSsemakadde @ProscieK This protection ensures that prosecutions are conducted based on substantive legal merits rather than prosecutorial discretion.

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@MaleMabiriziHKK @kyedza @Magalaomar 🙌🏾👌🏽 good take.

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@moses_yk @MaleMabiriziHKK @bkabumba @bazzira @AsiimweAnthony2 @ug_lawsociety @munagomba @elisonk @TonyNatif @AlumasiWatiho @TriteLawUG @GodwinTOKO Lol. 🎤

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@MaleMabiriziHKK @bkabumba @bazzira @AsiimweAnthony2 @ug_lawsociety @munagomba @elisonk @TonyNatif @AlumasiWatiho @TriteLawUG @GodwinTOKO Very disheartening. Throwing all judicial ethics out of the court room for personal scores 🤦🏾‍♂️

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@moses_yk @MaleMabiriziHKK @bkabumba @bazzira @AsiimweAnthony2 @ug_lawsociety @munagomba @elisonk @TonyNatif @AlumasiWatiho @TriteLawUG @GodwinTOKO Are you a lawyer? No offense, just wanted to highlight the “principle of recusal” so that we are on the same page.

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@japhethMwesigw1 @MaleMabiriziHKK @bkabumba @bazzira @AsiimweAnthony2 @ug_lawsociety @munagomba @elisonk @TonyNatif @AlumasiWatiho @TriteLawUG @GodwinTOKO Page 111-113