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Two years after Gen Z protests rocked President Ruto’s government, thousands in Kenya are gearing up to take to the streets again.
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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.
Kenya strongly protests the decision by Israel to include the country amongst those whose travellers it will restrict. This is esp unfortunate given Kenya’s support to regional surveillance & response to Ebola. With over 80,000 tests, no case of Ebola has been reported in Kenya.
US troops arrive in Kenya to build Ebola quarantine site — defying court order
AFRICOM deploys medical, engineering, security specialists to Laikipia Air Base while Kenyan High Court bars construction and locals protest a facility meant exclusively for Americans