David Muchai

Praestantiam.

[David Muchai @MuchaiDavid]

Someone selling snacks cannot by any standards be a hawker unable to own or rent a restaurant. Why then are smokies being hawked on both sides of and along Ngong Road and other city roads? This is a problem of enforcement of the law by @KURAroads and the County Government of Nairobi.

The road reserve on Ngong Road should be cleared of all hawkers; be they car yards, food vendors, furniture fundis and the ilk Behind the road reserve are enough resturants, general stores, markets and furniture showrooms. Let the road reserve be available for planting of trees, shrubs, flowers and grass. Nairobi hoyee! 2027 hoyee!

[Tinashe @baba_nyenyedzi]

Nairobi, final reflections.

Despite Nairobi being a haven of NGO work, impact funds, climate workshops and every species of grant funded virtue, one hears far less of the heavy socialist sermonising that so often drifts through Southern Africa. Why is that? I didn’t find a Karl Marx road as we did in Maputo….

Perhaps Kenya’s commercial bloodstream is simply too strong. Nairobi may host the NGO cathedral, but outside its stained glass windows the city is hustling: traders, founders, developers, agents, boda boda, financiers, exporters, coders and small businessmen all trying to make a shilling before the next traffic jam. The traffic jams here in the middle of high traffic and rain are extortion writ large. But the uber driver earning thrice the fee wasn’t complaining. Nor should we, but the wait time at a restaurant can stretch up to two hours, with the usual retort of “I’m almost there” serving as a signal to order the next dawa.

The intellectual mood in Nairobi is softened by enterprise. Even the social impact crowd seems more likely to speak the language of scale, platforms, mobile money and market access than nationalisation, redistribution and state led salvation.

Southern Africa, by contrast, still carries a heavier liberation era grammar. Politics there often begins with the state, the party, the struggle and the promise that history owes someone something. Nairobi feels more impatient with that theatre. It has its own dysfunctions, certainly, but its instinct is more transactional, more entrepreneurial, more “where is the opportunity?” than “where is the manifesto?” That may be why, even in a city full of NGOs, capitalism still manages to keep the microphone.

I like it here….

[Raymond Ndung'u @RaymondNdungu]

As a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, I'm so glad I have a hope that far transcends this world, because Jesus died and rose again, and I believe in Him.

But I also absolutely LOVE my country! 🇰🇪 God gave us Kenya, we have no other earthly home. We must BE BETTER.

[Kiprotich @iamkipro]

That is why I tell you leaders are a reflection of the society. As you blame the president MPs ministers judges for corruption just know they don’t fall from hell or mars. They come from Kenyans who also equally corrupt and dishonest like the political class. If leaders of a country are corrupt and dishonest it follows that the average citizen of that country is corrupt and dishonest

[FORTUNE @FortuneMagazine]

Gen Z workers think showing up ten minutes late to work is as good as being on time. https://t.co/46XEtk0PRl

[CS Rebecca Miano, EGH @rebecca_miano]

I watched with a heavy heart as what started as peaceful demonstrations morphed into chaos that cost our children’s life and loss of limb not to mention damage to property and businesses.
As I did my soul-searching I recalled some profound words of Allan Paton in his memorable novel, “Cry, The Beloved Country”. Three of Paton’s nuggets come to mind;

1​"I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating."

2.​"I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering."

3.​“…because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.”

Before it’s too late, and as we ponder over the olive branch that has been extended from the very top, I plead with all of us including our sons and daughters not to let anger consume our souls. Let us kindle the best of our sense of restraint and seek healing as we pray that our destiny is not obstructed, diverted or delayed.

My Ministry will double our efforts on promoting Youth Centric programs and opportunities in E Commerce, Entrepreneurship, Internships, Capacity building, Access to Capital and Access to Investments and Trade.

God bless Kenya!
@PSAhassan @AlfredKOmbudo @KenyaAuthority @ZeddyBariti @MwendwaBen @KEBS_ke @kirdi_kenya @HopeFMLive

[David Muchai @MuchaiDavid]

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[David Muchai @MuchaiDavid]

@BenFold117 @manniefabian Your understanding of a terror cell is different, bro...

[Harry Karanja, DTM @harrykaranja]

Years ago, I undertook my judicial attachment under a Senior Principal Magistrate, in the criminal division of Milimani Law Courts. The magistrate would normally give me and my fellow student, her case files to go through and practice writing judgments . One of the cases involved a parking boy who had been accused of stealing a car radio. The evidence was circumstantial at best. He was in the general vicinity when the complainant found his car broken into and the radio stripped out. There were no witnesses and the radio was not recovered. However, the parking boy being a "parking boy" was the prime suspect. He was charged and presented before court. When I went through the case file, I carefully applied all the principles I'd recently learnt in my Evidence and Criminal Law class. Burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt, he who alleges just prove, actus reus etc. I ultimately concluded that the prosecution had failed to prove their case and I "acquitted" the accused. To my surprise and consternation, the magistrate had a different conclusion. She found the unrepresented man guilty and gave him a custodial sentence. Later in her chambers, I questioned her decision. Her response sent a chill down my spine: "if I'm wrong, he can as well appeal". I thought it was beyond cruel to imprison someone with so little basis in law, when there was a good probability they were innocent.

Sadly it wasn't the last time I was to hear that sentiment. Recently a judicial officer said the exact same thing to me when I brought up the question of quality of judgments. That way of thinking is not an outlier. It seems there is a lot less rigour by JOs in subordinate courts in writing judgments with the excuse that they're overburdened and that the aggrieved party could always appeal anyway. Instead they churn out shoddy judgments in order to meet monthly quotas set down by @jsckenya. It's symptomatic of a @Kenyajudiciary that has lost focus in the critical role it plays in society when JOs are seen as little more than conveyor belts. The courts should be a forum where those who've been wronged can access justice, it should not be a place where the people are just numbers on a spreadsheet. It is a terrible thing when these officers lack empathy to appreciate the impact that their decisions have. A bad decision can be the difference between a child attending school or being sent home, a single mother being kicked out for rent arrears, a startup going belly up and adding to youth unemployment. A bad decision can alter the course of one's life irreparably.

I hope the CJ takes seriously the critiques by advocates and litigants on poorly written judgments and supports the end of basing performance of judicial officers on quantity of judgments and instead bases performance on the quality of the judgments. I'm afraid that if quick action is not taken, public confidence in the courts ability to resolve disputes fairly will ebb; lawyers will lose their relevance; and extrajudicial means to resolve disputes will become the favoured approach by wronged people.

[David Muchai @MuchaiDavid]

@kinuthiafranci1 @BiancaNaom1 I applied for my family and I's passports around the same time and got them in February with the last one coming in June. I didn't grease any palms!

[David Muchai @MuchaiDavid]

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[ESPN @espn]

Jokic went up to every Heat player before celebrating winning the #NBAFinals

Sportsmanship at its finest 👏

[David Muchai @MuchaiDavid]

‘In a lot of the world, the clock has hit midnight’: China is calling in loans to dozens of countries from Pakistan to Kenya https://t.co/QDNv87kfaG

[El Nyuki🐝 @jasonruno]

After consulting for many beekeepers around the Country, I've noticed a trend where most people start beekeeping projects and give up in a few months. Here are some reasons why most beekeeping projects DO NOT actualise. This🧵is purely based on my experience on the ground.

[David Muchai @MuchaiDavid]

@TiffanysVersion IMHO: All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Rom. 3:23

[Scott Roberts @ScottRoberts]

The late African-American pastor and evangelist Dr. E.V. Hill was once asked if he thought Jesus was Caucasian, as depicted in paintings. Here is his reply:

"I don't know anything about a white Jesus... I know about Christ, a Savior named Jesus. I don't know what color He is. He was born in the brown Middle East; He fled to black Africa; and He was in heaven before the gospel got to white Europe. So, I don't know what color He is."

"I do know one thing: if you bow at the altar with color on your mind, you'll get up with color on your mind. Go back again - and keep going back until you no longer look at His color, but at His greatness and His power - His power to save!"

[Taib Ali Taib Bajaber, SC.,MBS. @taibalitaib]

BBC viewed original copies of Form 34A declarations from polling stations, to see if they differed from the forms uploaded online by IEBC and in every case the results from the polling stations matched the official tallies published by the IEBC. See below

https://t.co/RVRGuy1qvL

[New Singaporean🇰🇪🏇🏿 @NewSingaporean_]

The attacks on Spectre & Northlands are targeted and wrong. But a worse outcome is the plight of the common man will become even less relevant. Media will talk about Spectre & Northlands for DAYS and very little about 1000s of wananchi whose businesses are destroyed every Monday.

[Voice of the Martyrs @VOM_USA]

REMEMBERING MARTYRS: On this day in 1555, 19-year-old William Hunter was burned as a heretic. His offense? Refusing the mass as directed by Queen Mary and instead reading the Bible for himself. He died with Psalm 51 on his lips and told his brother, "I am not afraid."