James Kabia

#GirlsDad| Comms Strategist| Lawyer & Business Advisor| 2019 Mandela Washington Fellow| views expressed are mine; retweets not endorsements

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

Our work on @BluePeace through @uncdf to develop innovative financing approaches for solving water and sanitation challenges while also promoting peace and cooperation will have a major impact on #LDCs that have struggled over the decades to access capital for service delivery…

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

It was my greatest pleasure to have had the opportunity to support this delivery through my work with @UNCDF.

[Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE @yakisawyerr]

Saturday was a day in the field as I engaged residents of Jah Kingdom in Kamayama, Congo Town Market, Owen Street by Mountain Cut, and Pamronkoh in Calaba Town during an inspection tour of newly constructed water kiosks and public toilet facilities. These facilities are among 65 solar powered water kiosks that provide filtered potable water and 15 public toilet facilities comprising 60 toilet units being delivered by Freetown City Council through our partnership with UNCDF under the Blue Peace Initiative. It was heartwarming to hear first hand from residents living in underserved communities across the city, how these interventions are positively impacting their lives. #TransformFreetown #TransformingLives #HopeToReality

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

Work of Art!!

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

@JKaifala This is better than Picasso

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

@VickieRemoe U don woke…

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

Why a restaurant?
Not a beach. Not a gallery. Not a long walk. A restaurant, every time.

On 21 May at The Box, I’ll be walking the Wi Tok En Drink crowd through what behavioural economics has to say about why we keep choosing the same setting for one of the most consequential conversations of adult life. And what changes when we stop.

6:30 PM · Levuma Beach, Goderich · Le 50 / Le 250

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

@VickieRemoe This partnership was long overdue. Well done, Vickie.

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

@john_konteh Blessed birthday boss @john_konteh

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

@tonkolili 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

Beautiful!!

[Vickie Remoe @VickieRemoe]

Sierra Leoneans can!

Sierra Rutile has secured $70 million debt financing from Ecobank to expand operations at its Sembehun mine in Sierra Leone.

Led by Mohamed Tunde Cole, co-founder of LeonOil, Sierra Rutile is the world’s largest natural rutile producer. It transitioned to 100% Sierra Leonean ownership for the first time in 2024 when Leonoil bought out Illuka.

Founded over 50 years ago, the mine produces titanium dioxide, which is used for pigment in plastic and paper and also for the production of titanium metal used on airplanes.

Today, Sierra Rutile has a workforce of over 1,500.*

The first part of the deal was signed this week at Mining Indaba in South Africa, giving Rutile access to $40 million of the $70 million facility from Ecobank Sierra Leone.

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

@jlahai @VickieRemoe …just men getting stray bullets anyhow

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

@VickieRemoe This is painful to imagine…

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

AI didn’t hallucinate professionalism. Lawyers did. This was simply a failure of due diligence scandal.

[Rob Freund @RobertFreundLaw]

Lawyer uses ChatGPT to help write a brief, ChatGPT hallucinates cases and quotations.

Court sanctions lawyer and 4 co-counsel (for not catching the errors).

The lawyer who used ChatGPT "has practiced for over thirty years."

He prompted ChatGPT: "write an order that denies the motion to strike with caselaw support ...."

He told the court that he normally doesn't use ChatGPT and used it this time because he was caring for his dying family members.

He said none of his co-counsel were aware of this use of generative AI.

Court says that because "all five ... attorneys signed both documents that included these errors, and they admit that not one of them verified that the case law in those briefs actually exist ..., their conduct violates Rule 11(b)(2).

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

@VickieRemoe Yes and financially prudent too

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

Well isn’t it encouraging to finally see our justice system works?

[Sierraloaded ™ 🇸🇱 @Sierraloaded]

Court Grants David Kpakima Interim Protection in High-Profile Telecoms Dispute

👇🏾👇🏾https://t.co/lHe3VRRUKI

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

@VickieRemoe 🤣🤣
December invoices are tha worst

[Yada Hashim Williams @WilliamsYada_H]

George Ekundayo Davies, a lawyer who died on 21 June 1980, was resurrected—at least on paper—to “execute” a conveyance dated 16 December 1994, more than a decade after his death. This patently fraudulent document now forms the foundation upon which Augusta Pratt (a front for Reverend David Chambers) has unlawfully seized over forty acres of land at York.
This is not an isolated incident. It is part of an entrenched and expanding pattern of brazen criminality of the notorious methods Reverend David Chambers has used for decades now. He has forged instruments and used them to unlawfully appropriate hundreds of acres of land across Freetown. It is evident that his disciples have learned well and are now terrorising legitimate landowners with impunity.
The Government should not stand by while law-abiding citizens are dispossessed of their hard-earned property through calculated fraud. On 27/11/25, we formally wrote to the Attorney-General, urging he directs the Sierra Leone Police to commence a full, independent, and thorough investigation into this criminal enterprise.
Let it be clearly understood: no one’s property is safe in Sierra Leone if these syndicates are not confronted decisively. This culture of impunity must end. Those responsible - whether principals, agents, or collaborators - must be identified, prosecuted, and held fully to account.
Land grabbing through forgery is not merely a civil wrong & criminal; it is a national security threat. It strikes at the heart of property rights, public confidence, etc. It must be stopped.

[Yada Hashim Williams @WilliamsYada_H]

It is long overdue for lawyers in Sierra Leone to bury their differences & reunite as one cohesive Bar. The current spectacle - where associating with either body and attendance at social events is largely determined by political affiliation - is untenable & damaging to the profession. Lawyers' bodies should not be mouthpieces or surrogates for political parties. We must commit to a unified & non-partisan Bar that stands above politics. A new Constitution for the SLBA should expressly bar those who are active in politics, occupy government offices or carry party cards from serving in executive positions. These should be the first steps toward restoring the unity, independence, & respectability of the Sierra Leone Bar. The Attorney-General must take the lead.

[UN in Sierra Leone @UNSierraLeone]

Today, the Ministry of Gender, UN agencies, civil society & women-led orgs convene to assess progress, share lessons & shape the future of Women, Peace & Security programming. Nearly 40% of Sierra Leone’s PBF portfolio supports gender-responsive peacebuilding.
#WPS #UNPBF

[James Kabia @jaykabia1]

@EleanorThomps A time-tested principled man who continues to work with the utmost integrity in an environment designed to corrupt everything in its pathway.