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[Maritim @sirdecco]

@beldinkaaray Lakini rules are rules lazima tudictate vile you inhale ndio usiwaste blunt

[Maritim @sirdecco]

@Not_ChaoosKE @ignyharaz2 Mnatumia nini for fencing?

[Ahmednasir Abdullahi SC @ahmednasirlaw]

Explaining the endless backlog/inertia in our courts to advocates, clients and judges despite massive increases in the number judges:

1. We have 365 days in a year.

2. The High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme court don't sit on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, totalling 156 days.

3. We are left with 209 working days in a year.

4. Judges take summer vacation of 45 days from 1st August to 15th September.

5. They take 21 days Christmas leave from 22nd December to 15th January.

6. They take 14 days Easter vacation.

7. Judges take 30 days annual leave.

8. Judges spend 30 days a year in workshop, training, seminars and foreign trips, specially the Supreme Court judges.

9. Average of 15 days on personal and family emergencies .

10. The Average judge of the High Court and the Court of Appeal sit in court a mere 54 days a year.

11. Supreme Court judges sit between 25 to 28 days in a year.

12. The Chief Justice sits in court less than 15 days a year.

With judges working just 54 days a year, do you now understand the second biggest challenge facing the courts after JurisPESA?

@lawsocietykenya @NelsonHavi @Kenyajudiciary @omwanza @AbdikadirMohami @philip_murgor @WehliyeMohamed @jsckenya @FaithOdhiambo8

[Premier League @premierleague]

Rodri has completed football.

[Drugs Bunny @Monty_Hasashi]

I believe people die without realising their true talent or passion. Say for example you were born to be a legendary ice skater but now you've spawned on the African server in a poor family. Your difficulty settings are already at the highest. And there's no ice here.

[Drugs Bunny @Monty_Hasashi]

The Dolby Atmos sound system in Samsung is legit. Ikupate na high quality earphones you'll just levitate. Been testing it for a while now and damn, I'm impressed.

[muliii @muliwithanm]

Ati wamerudisha likes public

[Drugs Bunny @Monty_Hasashi]

Ukitembea town you have to look around all the time like a secret agent ju the moment umefanya makosa ku make eye contact na jamaa wa nduthi, nduthi ishawashwa. Ukiangalia mama mboga hivi ndio huyo ashaanza kuweka cabbage kwa carrier bag. You just can't look at people anymore.

[Maritim @sirdecco]

@treb_res Unfat

[Maritim @sirdecco]

@TLlium *Weeps in UON Lower Kabete

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Now, Kenyans, this obsession with KCSE is what I was trying to explain is the problem with Kenyan education when we were swooning over CBC.

In my post, I talked of KCSE very specifically, and people assumed that I'm saying language doesnt matter in law. No. I was saying that KCSE should not be the only certification that matters. Right now, if I scored a C in English, even if I was to go and train as an English teacher in England, return here, and apply to be a teacher in TSC and or to join the legal profession, and maybe I'm even 35 years old, so I've been working with English for at least 17 years since high school, some of those years in England itself, I would not be allowed to do law or high school teaching, on the basis of my KCSE language grades.

I know someone who speaks Kiswahili very well. But she got a C in Kiswahili. She did B.Ed in Kiswahili, and TSC refused to employ her on the basis of her KCSE grade. She went to Tanzania, U of Dar no less, did a masters in Kiswahili. TSC still refused. They told her her only hope was to become a primary school teacher.

Right now, you people oohed and aaahed about music being taught in CBC. Do you know that we don't have enough music teachers? After music was removed as a compulsory subject in KCSE, very few students did Music up to form 4. Meaning that today, many people doing Music in university are doing so on certificates in Music from universities or ABRSM. They can be doing private teaching at the conservertoire, touring the world because of their music, but TSC will NOT employ them, because they didn't do music in KCSE. And there's a shortage of Music teachers.

So, when you people were shouting with @KICDKenya that the problem with 8.4.4 was exam obsession, I told you no. The problem is our institutions.

1) our institutions obsess with holding people to their grades when they were 17 years old, sometimes even 30 years after high school. I know of a PhD holder who was not employed as a lecturer because of his A level grade. In 2012, thereforeabouts. The man had even published post-PhD, was over 40 years old, but no.

2) what we need is the recognition of work/lived experience. But again, your precious Fred Matiangi even wanted to CANCEL degrees earned by people who entered university doing diplomas. Yet the top professors of the 70s, the ones we still quote today, started as S1 teachers. Ali Mazrui was one of them.

I said the solution to exam obsession was to ease the pressure of certification, but almost all Kenyans joined the bandwagon of saying the problem is the curriculum. And now, let me just remind you, CBC is worse that KCSE on that count alone. Children will be blocked from entering professions based on their pathways, not just their results.

The real problem of Kenya is our class snobbery. We think that people must follow a certain path, and must be punished for ever and ever for the grades they scored when they were 17. And then you self-righteously wonder why students burn dorms when mock exams are round the corner.

We are not British aristocrats. WE ARE NOT BRITISH ARISTOCRATS. We need to stop with this class, snobbery, pedigree nonsense in the work space. It is encouraging mediocrity, corruption and most of all, exclusion of people who would otherwise be gainfully employed.

And ban the CBC pathways. Pathways are evil.

#GatekeepingKE
#CBCisheretostay

[Maritim @sirdecco]

@Dr_AustinOmondi At long last!

[Ⓝⓖ'ⓞⓡⓞⓡⓘⓔⓣ🐐🇰🇪 @baroswahjr]

Former Cherangany MP Joshua Kutuny is back like he never left – listen to his hilarious remarks at the coronation of the new Nandi Kaburwo Chairman Augustine Kisorio.

[Maritim @sirdecco]

@Josh001J Itabidi kijana arudi Cherangany kufanya ukulima

[Tilingi 🐘 @ArapTilingi]

Asome Kandoikchok, omwachi Laitoriat kole kimache komarmarit gaa, kimache ortinuek che chute Eldoret ko dual, kimache kong'et Moi University, Kimache alyet ne kararan nebo Chaik, ye kakosulda cho tugul ko mosame chi akot kotil kura, tile ichegei amu kere boisionik.

[MOSET @KeKirwa]

Nandi gaa kaburwo. Our forefathers really got the best lands.

[Maritim @sirdecco]

@Kebaso__ @lunabyte_98 Umbwa😂chukua hiyo statement and shove it

[Maritim @sirdecco]

@ssaauuraa 😂😂

[Maritim @sirdecco]

@DirtLAMAR Virusi mbaya with bars🔥