"Dying for your country is a patriotic fairy tale. In reality, you will bleed out in the mud like a butchered dog for absolutely nothing." - Ernest Hemingway
Ralph:The rules!...you're breaking the rules!
Jack:Who cares?
Ralph:Because the rules are the only thing we've got!
Jack:Bollocks to the rules! We're strong-we hunt! If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down! We'll close in and beat and beat and beat-!
William Golding,Lord of flies
Justice H. Chemitei on Section 3(5) of the LSA; a spouse in a subsequent marriage, though void under law due to an existing monogamous marriage, is still a wife for purposes of succession. Succession rights prevail despite the marriage's legal invalidity.
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Someone print this out and place it on every court notice board. And then let it be read every Friday before Courts deliver their Rulings and Judgments. Yesterday, Hon Sheilah Gloria Atim reminded Uganda, and all of us, what judicial courage looks like.
#FiatJustitia#RuleOfLaw
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Justice Nabil Orina gets it right on Sec 34 of the SCC Act. He captures the reality of the court and the need to safeguard access to justice.
'The 60-day timeline must be seen for what it sought to achieve:
timely disposal of claims and not a rigid ouster clause'
🌍 Decolonising African Agriculture
Join @HBSNairobi for a public lecture on Food Security, Agroecology & the Future of Food Systems in East Africa.
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Justice Oguttu Mboya (Meru ELC)has issued a conservatory order stopping the alleged construction of a State House lodge, airstrip and golf course on any portion of Imenti forest, Meru.
Our book is finally here. Join us in our three-series launch starting with Friday 12th from 1pm in Mathare, Sunday 14th from 1pm at Cheche Bookshop and the final launch on 18th at a venue that shall be communicated soon. Also, you can get the book at Nuria, Cheche and MSJC.
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'This Court finds and holds that the appointment of Honourable Aisha Jumwa Katana as Chairperson of the Kenya Roads Board did not comply with the mandatory requirements of Section 7 of the Kenya Roads Board Act, No. 7 of 1999.'
Link: https://t.co/ZdLQ0nSqT7
Maya comes to my rescue!
Even where suspension is sanctioned by the Constitution,it is permissible only if it constitutes a just & equitable relief. It is not just and equitable if it returns parties to an ineffective rule with a risk of a repeat of the same inappropriate action.
The question of same sex marriage asked by Commissioner Omwanza to Katwa Kigen SCwas asked in the Bomas Draft Kenyans rejected it!
The committee rejected both same sex marriages regardless of traditions as well as homosexuality.
Ochiel now submits that looking at the History of Constitution making process, the word “May” in Article 45 means Mandatory.
Can’t wait to see what the court will say.
The most Consequntial finding:
'The justification for rushed impeachment proceedings is not supported by law'
'Right to fair trial applies to both Criminal & Civil proceedings'
The Court of Appeal has just given Gachagua's lawyers perfect ammunition for his rushed impeachment.
That may be part of the investment thesis, but the analysis is incomplete.
Nation Media Group is not just a bundle of real estate assets but is also one of the most influential information platforms in East Africa, and control of such an institution carries agenda setting and editorial power.
Even if the balance sheet contains undervalued property, ownership of a major newsroom also means influence over narratives and editorial tone.
When the controlling shareholder has visible political relationships ahead of major elections, questions about editorial independence are inevitable.
The most valuable company of the next decade might be built by one person in a room.
No employees. No office. No investors.
Just a founder and an army of agents.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt just handed you the most important wealth creation blueprint of the next decade.
Schmidt: “This is the agentic period in AI.”
The era of the chatbot is over. The era of the agent has begun.
And Schmidt says if you want to capitalize on it, the formula is simple.
Schmidt: “If you really wanna make money, it’s actually easy. Found an agentic AI company.”
But he was precise about where the real value lives.
Schmidt: “I don’t mean one designing agents. I mean build an agent to do something.”
Not infrastructure. Not foundational models. Not another AI wrapper.
Execution.
Autonomous, end-to-end, runs-without-you execution.
Schmidt: “For the next year or two, everyone’s going to build agents.”
And those agents are going to compete in an open market for every white-collar function that exists.
The winners won’t own software products. They’ll own the labor.
Think about what that actually means.
Every industry built on repetitive human expertise is about to face a digital worker that never sleeps, never asks for a raise, and gets better every month.
Legal research. Financial analysis. Sales. Recruiting. Customer operations. Marketing.
Every niche is a company waiting to be built.
Schmidt: “If you build a better agent than anyone else, you can probably build one incredible company and own it yourself.”
Own it yourself.
No venture capital. No massive executive team. No dilution.
For the first time in history, the leverage that used to require hundreds of employees fits inside a codebase one person can own outright.
And once agents execute better than humans at a specific function, businesses stop hiring for it.
They just deploy.
Whoever builds the best digital worker in any given category doesn’t compete for talent.
They obsolete the need for it.
We spent the last decade watching software eat the world.
We are about to watch agents eat the workforce.
The founders who move now, pick a niche, and build the best digital worker in that category won’t just build companies.
They’ll build the new infrastructure of human productivity.
Every era of wealth creation had a window.
The railroad window. The internet window. The mobile window.
Each one rewarded the people who saw it early and moved while everyone else was still debating whether it was real.
This is the window.
The only question is whether you build the agent or spend the rest of your career being replaced by one.