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[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

So the plan is to Amend the Constitution instead of fixing why every new government behaves like it found an empty file??

Sawa.

[Tim Kipchumba @TimKipchumba]

We need One single 10 year Presidency term for stability.

5 year term stronger parliament and senate - able to recall President.

An executive that has to keep returning to elections each 5 years - doesn’t execute much.

Almost anything that can get down, takes not less 5 years!

Even projects - JKIA, Expressway, SGR have been 10+ years in their planning cycles.

[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

Well put.

A clear demonstration from our courts that constitutional compliance is not a market risk. The real risk is treating constitutional scrutiny as optional whenever the transaction is large enough.

[Joshua Malidzo Nyawa @joshuamalidzo]

You will read wonderful decisions in your life. But find time to read the Ruling by Justices Gikonyo, Aburili and Tabitha Ouya granting the conservatory order stopping the sale of the Govts shares in Safaricom. Here is a bench that understands the role of a judge in a democracy.

[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

@treb_res What's your P. 105?

[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

@dklaston Ungovernable 🤣

[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

Every NTSA speeding notification I have seen seems to feature a front facing image.

Has anyone received an NTSA speeding notification where the vehicle was photographed from behind rather than from the front?

Curious 🤨

[Zollz @zollz]

Hizi mobile speed cameras ni a government cash cow bana. Weh!

[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

@GithinjiMwai GPS?

[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

@zollz Sharp boys already wanangoja shipment za Alibaba ziingie. They are about to eat good.

[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

Screenshots + affidavit + a Section 106B certificate will help.

But screenshots aren't the evidence; the video is. If CTS can't accept video uploads, how is the actual exhibit filed?

@Ingutiah E-Filing needs a proper electronic exhibits module for video and audio.

[LaBan @laban_ach]

I need help. When you want to adduce video evidence like say CCTV video evidence, how do you do it? Juu our primitive systems can only upload Affidavits no video material.
I've had to take random screenshots and then annex those with an assurance of availing a USB with the video

[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

If a violation of the Constitution cannot alter the outcome of an exercise of power, then @joshuamalidzo what exactly is the constitution doing?

Is it regulating power or merely chronicling its excesses?

[Ndong@Conslaw @Ndonglaw043]

The Judge Bench Gachagua Judgement is finally here with us. Importantly it is 286 pages & not 350 as we heard. Just take your Time & Rigorously engage with the Decision to ensure we do not see POSITIONS that do not reflect what is in there. I have attached it here for your sake:
https://t.co/d3IOQWmq7V

[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

Hon. Justice Ado

Despite s.32B, the tribunal directed taxation of arbitral costs in the High Court. The award was not challenged under s.35 & was recognised under s.36.

The Judge treated taxation as ancillary to enforcement.

Does finality cure the jurisdictional objection?

[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

@alexmwanzo Chukua 1/2mic. If agreed tuma 📌.

[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

@Safaricom_Care @derroh_ Wait, Kshs. 10 per page for soft copy?

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

Just post “House Negro” and see how quickly the puppets will flood your post😂😂

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

The nation that arranged the poisoning of Toussaint Louverture of St Domingue ( Haïti) for demanding the end of slavery and the liberation of his people in 1803; that assassinated Ruben Um Nyobe, the Cameroonian independence leader hunted down and killed in 1958 by French forces before independence was even formally granted, that had Felix Moumie of Cameroon, poisoned in Geneva by his intelligence in 1960, that orchestrated the assassination of Sylvanus Olympio of Togo by soldiers of his colonial army in 1963, that armed and protected the man who murdered Thomas Sankara in 1987 and sheltered him for decades, that supported the destabilisation that led to the overthrow and death of Modibo Keita of Mali, that printed millions of fake currency to destroy the Guinean Franc after 8 failed assassination attempts at Sekou Toure because he stood his grounds and demanded independence, that stood behind the forces that removed and destroyed Patrice Lumumba, coordinating with Belgium and the CIA to ensure Congo’s most visionary independence leader did not survive his own government, that massacred at least 100,000 Malagasy people, 250,000 Cameroonians, 1.2 million Algerians between 1955 and 1962 simply because they demanded their independence.

The president of that nation, less than half a century after committing such atrocities stood before a room full of African heads of state in 2026 and declared itself the true Pan-Africanist. And not one of them stood up.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Not one said: you cannot use that word: not here, not with that history on this continent. Not a single one had the dignity to say what any person with an elementary knowledge of what Pan-Africanism means and what France has done to those who practiced it would have said immediately and without hesitation.

It is the equivalent of a Nazi leader standing before a Jewish assembly and announcing that Germany is the true defender of the Jewish people. There are words that carry such historical mass that no political convenience, no diplomatic ambition, no funding arrangement justifies allowing them to be stolen and worn by those who spent generations trying to destroy what those words represent; Pan-Africanism is one of those words. And it was surrendered in that room without a fight, by men who were supposed to be there representing us.

France is not even a formidable power anymore. It cannot impose its will on its own European neighbourhood. Its economy is strained, its global influence is null, its African military presence has been expelled. It intimidates no one who has chosen not to be intimidated. And yet these boneless, prideless, senseless humans we call Africa leaders sat and applauded this humiliation ritual.

What breaks me is knowing that every generation, without fail, produces its quota of leaders who will trade the dignity of their people for a photograph with a western head of state, for a seat at a table that was never set for them. They dress it up as pragmatism and call it diplomacy. But it is the oldest and most contemptible transaction in the postcolonial playbook: the surrender of collective dignity for personal visibility.

And these are days, I will not pretend otherwise, where I genuinely wonder if we will ever be free.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Not because the struggle is not real or the people are not capable, but because freedom requires leaders at the decisive moment, and every decisive moment seems to find us represented by spineless, glory-hunting, photograph-chasing men who would sell the graves of their own predecessors for a handshake with those that tried to erase their people. Every generation inherits the fight for freedom but also produces the cowards who auction it.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

It is quite satisfying to watch the antelope loudly proclaim its friendship with the leopard. But the entire savanna knows, that this friendship has never existed anywhere but in the mind of the predator searching for a more comfortable way to feed, and that of a prey so foolish it has mistaken the beauty of those spots for something other than the last thing it will ever see.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

[Namzy @namzyvibez]

Unforgettable moment when Buster Douglas promised his mother he’d be champion… 23 days after she passed, he kept that promise, dropping the undefeated Mike Tyson for the first time in history. 🕊️🥊
Not just a fight but a promise fulfilled ❤️

[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

PhalaPhala is essentially the political question doctrine on trial. Excessive deference will hollow out oversight. Conversely, overreach will collapse the political into the judicial.

May it rain.

[Zoleka Qodashe @ZOLEKV_Q]

[BREAKING] The Constitutional Court will hand down the Phala Phala judgment on Friday, 8 May 2026.

@Newzroom405

[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

A jurist of rare intellectual depth, his wisdom and jurisprudential clarity have consistently elevated the Bench.

The Supreme Court stands to gain an incisive and formidable legal mind.

[Caroline Oduor @OduorACaroline]

Today’s impeachment proceedings against Rigathi Gachagua may go down as more than just political theatre. They could mark the first real judicial stress test of Article 145 of the Constitution.

My key takeaways:

1. Article 145 is finally being litigated in substance: For the first time, the High Court is being invited not just to review process, but to confront the architecture of presidential/DP impeachment itself . Importantly, it has to answer what “gross violation” actually means in practice.

2. Procedural compliance is no longer the only battleground. Today signals a shift: can a process be procedurally sound yet constitutionally insufficient?

3. The Senate’s role is under sharper scrutiny: The Senate does not just vote in impeachment proceedings. It exercises a quasi-judicial mandate. That raises the bar on evidence, reasoning, and record.

4. The “political question” doctrine is being tested: Will the courts continue their hands-off approach, or will they define minimum substantive thresholds under Article 145? That line is now thinner than ever.

5. Precedent in the making: Whatever the outcome, this moment will shape how future impeachments are conducted not just politically, but constitutionally.

[Recovering Academic @quickjest]

@14Menengai @kenyasgossips You can not use Pipeline chaos as the benchmark for 'normal'. Tatu City is a SEZ and is allowed to enforce standards to protect infrastructure. Cities like Singapore and parts of China do the same. Order is not prison....it is deliberate governance.