STOP LAMINATING IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
“My certificate is safe, I have laminated it.”
Safe… but legally risky
Many people don’t know this: once you laminate a document, you may have reduced its value in court.
The law (Evidence Act 2011) which is the law that governs admissibility in court prefers original documents
B. Lamination seals the paper — no one can check if anything was added, removed, or altered
C. Courts and lawyers may not fully rely on it if authenticity is questioned
D. Forensic examination (ink, signature, alterations) becomes almost impossible
Let's look at this scenario:
You take a laminated agreement or receipt to court…
The other party says, “This has been tampered with.”
Court looks at it and says, “We can’t properly examine this because it is laminated
That one becomes a problem
Even banks, embassies, and some offices may reject laminated originals outright.
So what should you do instead?
A. Keep your original documents in a file or waterproof folder
B. Make photocopies and laminate those if you like
C Obtain Certified True Copies (CTC) for official use
Finally
Lamination protects from dirt… but can expose you to legal trouble.
Don’t protect your document and destroy its value at the same time
Law is EMOTIONLESS
�� Emmanuella Chinenye Ogwale
Homeschooling came from the American evangelical movement after desegregation of public schools in the 1960s, where white parents didn't want their kids learning with black kids. And this is the confusion of Kenyans about education. Even TVET, which we call "practical," was designed to teach black people to remain semi-skilled and at the bottom of the economic hierarchy. Even parental involvement in CBC came from American evangelical "family values," that blamed black American men for broken families while ignoring the high incarceration rates.
You cannot run away from education problems with private solutions. Education is a social good. But middle class Kenyans have a stunted social consciousness, that's why they can't understand that problem.
#FixingthenationNTV
I’m 36 and my younger sister is 25, so there’s an 11-year gap between us. Her husband happens to be the same age as I am. They met when she was 20 and he was 31, got married when she was 22, and now they have a one-year-old daughter.
What’s difficult for me is watching how well he treats her and realizing how much it highlights what’s missing in my own life. He’s very present and supportive, he helps with their baby so she can rest, checks on her throughout the day, plans time for the two of them, and makes it clear that he values her.
They both seem to genuinely care for each other and put effort into their marriage, and it shows.
I truly love my sister and I’m glad she has that kind of relationship. But seeing it also brings up complicated emotions for me. As the older sister, I always assumed I would have reached those milestones first. Instead, most of my relationships in the past have been unhealthy or toxic, and now at 36 I’m single and don’t have children
Sometimes I find myself daydreaming about what it would be like to have a partner who shows that same level of care and consistency.
It’s not about wanting her husband, I would never cross that line. It’s more about wishing I had a relationship where I felt that valued. Even so, those thoughts make me feel embarrassed and guilty.
I don’t feel angry toward my sister, and I don’t wish for her happiness to change. What I’m really dealing with is feeling like I’ve fallen behind in life and trying to make sense of those emotions without letting them harm my relationship with her or my own wellbeing.
Does this make me a bad person?
On July 5th, 2021, Peter walked confidently into Dedamax Hotel. A security expert by profession, he arrived with Caro on his arm and cash in his pocket. Room 107 was paid for in crisp notes, no witnesses, just privacy wrapped in the false comfort of anonymity.
In his mind, it was a reward. For weeks, a "sweet thing" had privately colonized his thoughts, and his heart was drumming with anticipation. Biology had staged a coup against logic, his lower regions were already alert and in agreement with his heart. All he needed now was the final confirmation.
He was walking toward an execution.Five hours before she met him, Caroline had reportedly fled a far more serious room one where a police officer, John Ogweno, lay dying. The nation would later piece this together in headlines and whispers. But that evening, Peter only tasted the expensive sweetness of drinks she had earlier paid for at Jogoo Kimakia Country Lodge. Desire is a master of selective memory; it erases caution and edits reality.
Hours later, in that very room, a bullet would punctuate the evening. A single, clinical shot. For a sharpshooter, the head is not a gamble. He would collapse into a pool of blood, and the hotel walls. A security expert undone by lust.
Ok....now
On 10th January 1987, in Kamagoch village, Elgeyo Marakwet County, Caroline was born to Barnaba and Leah Firstborn who was baptized in discipline and expectation. Raised in the Christian way
At Nyawa Boarding School she scored 305/500 in KCPE in 2004. The kind of score that earns a handshake without applause. She proceeded to Alphonsus Mutei Girls School. Yet KCSE returned a humble C–. A grade that politely closed the gates of university and suggested something more practical vocational training, perhaps.
But she did not feel practical. She chose a certificate course in peer counselling at KIPC instead she wanted to guide troubled souls while quietly negotiating her own.
Then came a police recruitment drive through town. She tried, was picked and 2008, she entered the disciplined world of Kiganjo Police College in Nyeri her first journey outside home soil.
There is something disturbingly about a woman from a quiet village discovering she has steady hands and unblinking eyes. By graduation, she had earned First Class classification on the shooting range. The first taste of mastery in a life that had otherwise handed her mediocrity in neat, polite doses. The state gave her a gun.
Her first posting was to Mombasa Police Training College. It was there she met Richard a senior officer in the Maritime Police Unit, a unit tasked with guarding Kenya’s waters from narcotics, smuggling, pollution, and the restless creativity of crime.
They dated and built something unofficial but intimate. By the time she was transferred to Kaloleni Police Station in 2010, she was pregnant with his child. The boy was born that same year and Later, a daughter joined the family.
By 2014, the four of them were living as a neat ,Soft and Respectable family. Stability had finally shaken her hand but underneath it,professional, emotional and psychological pressures formed . The uniform does not grant immunity from chaos.
Their Marriage, started revealing its cracks under fluorescent light. Caroline felt the tremor first. Whispers reached her ears , there were patterns of betrayed themselves and absences Richard, senior officer, maritime guardian of the nation’s waters, appeared unable to guard the shoreline of his own vows and she could not understand it.
She was beautiful, wore the uniform and had borne him two children. In her arithmetic, loyalty should have been automatic. But fidelity is not a salary. 1/2
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I often wonder how many extraordinary people wasted their entire lives waiting to feel ready. Gathering more information. Creating the perfect plan. Simulating progress. Convincing themselves they’d start tomorrow. Readiness is a myth. Action creates clarity. Go do the thing.
@janetmachuka_ The Epstein files is a stark reminder that the world is run by dark forces. Look at who are involved. It is horrific. Strangely, even simple communication as planning for lunch was canvassed through emails
I first stumbled upon the Epstein rabbit hole seven years ago. I was so shaken I couldn’t sleep for days.
What I read and saw felt too dark, too grotesque to be real and my mind rejected it as “conspiracy,” even though some parts of the theory that I was watching, hearing and reading wasn’t fiction.
Today, after years of denial, the files have come out and it is almost impossible to read them without feeling physically sick.
Powerful names. Presidents. Princes. Billionaires. Bill Gates to Bill Clinton, Trump to Prince Andrew. Allegations of rape, exploitation of children, babies being dismembered, bodies mutilated, extreme torture, cannibalism, ritualistic abuse… Acts so depraved they turn your stomach to read. Horrors that should never exist in a civilized world.
And if this is what authorities deemed fit for public release after redactions, delays, and legal filtering then one cannot help but wonder what was judged too dangerous, too destabilizing, or too horrifying to see daylight.
Good evening gents and ladies.
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Took a 2.5yr break, but now I'm back.
Shot 4 weddings last year and am looking to do more this year.
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