Victor M. Ombongi

Criminal Lawyer. Advocate of the High Court(HC). State Attorney(DA). Champion 4 Leadership & Governance. The People's Voice & Representative in Power.

[Victor M. Ombongi @victaah]

This Thread is for Our City Governor. Johnson Sakaja. I hope you learn something. If you don't isoriat too. Building Markets Mama Mboga and Kiosks for Bodaboda is Easy, Okay & Ordinary. What I don't know is if you have the Guts, Ability and strength to imagine a city 4 the future

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

Remember Them!

Project done by @itsmugoerick
#GenZ2ndAnniversary

[Victor M. Ombongi @victaah]

@DavidNdii What are we saying?

[Douglas Denzel 🇰🇪 @DenzelDouglas8]

Lawyers in Africa have been born in colonialism, educated under neo-colonialism and function under dictatorships. They hold law degrees amidst oceans of illiteracy... They find it immoral to remain independent and non-partisan in the politics of their countries.

-The Black Bar

[Joan Thatiah @JoanThatiah]

A few weeks ago, I spent some time chatting with the brilliant young woman behind my recent People Daily feature. She had thoughtful questions, and we had a great conversation.

[Victor M. Ombongi @victaah]

@HassanAliJoho Kisungu Kubwa Waziri

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a social media ban for under-16s.

Live updates: https://t.co/Jxi67uC5Qk

[Rohit @ai_rohitt]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

BREAKING: Trump administration claims the Somali referee was denied entry because he is a security threat to the US with links to suspected terrorists. He was questioned for 11 hours, including about Al Shabab

Omar Abdulkadir Artan just landed back in Somalia to a hero's welcome

[Faith Odhiambo @FaithOdhiambo8]

Yesterday's High Court judgment on the impeachment of H.E. Rigathi Gachagua raises serious and legitimate questions that our constitutional jurisprudence must grapple with honestly. The three-judge bench found that the Senate violated the former Deputy President's right to a fair hearing under Article 50 of the Constitution specifically by declining to grant an adjournment when he was unable to attend the proceedings. The court acknowledged that violation, issued a declaratory order and awarded Ksh.50 million in constitutional damages. Yet the bench ultimately upheld the impeachment itself. I respect the court and the constitutional role it plays. But I believe this outcome calls for serious reflection on the coherence of our remedial framework.

The tension in the judgment lies in this, if the Senate's refusal to adjourn was a constitutional infirmity serious enough to warrant a finding of violation and a Ksh.50 million award, then the question that naturally follows is whether that infirmity was capable of tainting the entire removal process. The right to a fair hearing is not procedural decoration. It is a substantive constitutional guarantee, particularly in proceedings that result in the removal of a person from high public office. Courts must therefore grapple carefully with what it means to vindicate a right while simultaneously affirming the outcome that flowed from its violation. It is a difficult balance and I appreciate that the bench was navigating complicated constitutional terrain.

It is instructive to recall the reasoning of the Supreme Court in the landmark 2017 presidential election petition delivered by the then Chief Justice David Maraga. The court, in a 4-2 majority, nullified the presidential election not on the basis that the outcome was necessarily wrong but on the basis that the process through which it was arrived at did not conform to the Constitution and the law. The court found that irregularities and illegalities in the transmission of results had compromised the integrity of the election and that the constitutional standard required more than a plausible result, it required a process that was itself constitutionally compliant. That principle that a flawed process cannot produce a constitutionally valid outcome remains a pillar of our public law.

When we place that 2017 reasoning alongside yesterday's judgment, a legitimate concern emerges. Both cases involved constitutional violations in the course of a high-stakes removal or electoral process. In 2017, the violation of constitutional standards was sufficient to nullify the result entirely. Yesterday, a violation of the right to a fair hearing was found, remedied in damages but the result was preserved. These are not necessarily irreconcilable positions, courts do have discretion in fashioning remedies but the distinction must be clearly reasoned and transparently justified because the precedent being set will govern how future impeachments are conducted and how future courts respond to violations within those processes.

My concern is about the precedent this decision may establish. If a constitutional violation during impeachment proceedings can be remedied by damages without disturbing the outcome, future Parliaments and Senates may not feel the full weight of their constitutional obligations when handling removal proceedings. The court itself noted the urgent need for Parliament to enact a dedicated statutory framework under Article 150 governing the removal of a Deputy President which is a legislative gap that should never have existed this long. That recommendation must not be ignored. A constitutional democracy is built on the integrity of its processes not merely its outcomes. We must ensure that the right to a fair hearing in Kenya remains substantive and not merely symbolic.

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

This book is going to revolutionize the way an entire generation thinks:

[Lawyer Issues @LawyerIssues]

Law school didn’t teach me that the best client communication skill is asking the same question three different ways.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇰🇪 Starlink helping schools in Kenya 🇰🇪

[Kenyan Wall Street @kenyanwalstreet]

"The banks wanted to kill M-Pesa. But wherever you go they say Kenya has done so well in digital...

If we can reform to make the cost of money cheap, to reduce the cost of transactions, then we can do even better."

- Former CBK Governor Micah Cheserem

Video: CBK

[Divyan Shah @thedivyanshah]

Tatu City was not just a land dispute, it was a fight over how 10,000+ acres of old coffee land became one of Kenya’s biggest private city projects. It was one of the biggest boardroom wars Kenya has ever seen.

- Vimal Shah (Bidco Billionaire)
- Nahashon Nyagah (Former CBK Governor)
- Stephen Mwagiru (Coffee Farmer)
- Stephen Jennings (New Zealand Investor)
- A 50% stake.
- A $20M deposit allegedly paid… but later found in arbitration not to have been paid.
- And a Sh1.7B award that exposed how ugly the fight became.

Thread 🧵 👇🏾

[Prof. Alfred Omenya @aomenya]

A new 8,000 capacity international conference centre in Nairobi, Kenya...loading...

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interview with SpaceX CFO

[KYK 🇰🇪 @KijanayaKabras]

Samantha Siyieyio Kipury is a Kenyan advertising executive who quit a lucrative job at 25 to start her own agency. She began with just one client, Nokia, and handled everything herself - from pitching to taxes; for the first 6 months. She also enrolled for an MBA to learn business management while building the company.

Her childhood shaped her drive. Her mother left for Canada on a scholarship when Samantha was 4, so she was raised by her father. She credits that period for giving her what she calls “masculine energy” and a no-excuses work ethic.

The business grew fast. She merged her firm with two others to form Dentsu Kenya, where she and partners Joel Rao and Chris Madison now share equal ownership. The parent company is based in South Africa. Under her leadership, Dentsu Kenya has handled major campaigns like Barclays to Absa rebrand, Safaricom’s ‘Bonga For Good’, Guinness ‘Made of Black’, the NIC-CBA to NCBA merger, ‘Malaria No More’, and Netflix’s viral ‘Free The Whole Storo’ ad.

Today, 39-year-old Samantha is Dentsu Kenya Group Head of Media and manages about 28 local and international corporate clients. She was named in Business Daily’s ‘Top 40 Under 40’ list in 2018. She’s now entering a new chapter - starting a family while still leading big moves in Kenya’s advertising industry. Mungu nibariki sasa …

[Ian Wafula @Ian_Wafula]

We found evidence of construction going on inside the Nairobi National Park but @KWSKenya just confiscated our drone. Currently protests by lobby groups and environmentalists are going on over the construction.

[KJV Cards @kjvcards]

Hissing Curse - 2025 Punk Circus

Download the song, here:
https://t.co/e5qXJ96Qjv

In desert lands, where darkness grows,
Hissing drowneth out the crows.
The LORD is wroth, with foolish foes,
Astonished nations reap their woes.

Flies and bees swarm in reply,
Thorns and briars pierce the sky.
Passers hiss with scornful eye,
High and lofty, mean men die.

Desolation, wagging hand,
Hissing deafens all the land.
Sinful cities, towers grand,
Crumble down at hiss command.

Gnashing teeth, the wicked see,
Swallowed up by hiss decree.
Prophets weep on bended knee,
God perfect thy prophecy.

Hissing Curse, idols mingle.
Hissing Curse, abomination.
Hissing Curse, ears shall tingle.
Hissing Curse, hiss will be done.

[0xDipper @Dipper_pol]

Nassim Taleb: the bigger something gets, the more fragile it becomes.

Jump off a 1-meter ledge ten times - you're fine. Jump 10 meters once - you're dead.

Size works the same way. One giant bank dumping €50B moved the market 12% and lost billions. Ten small banks dumping €5B each would've lost almost nothing.

"An elephant breaks a leg when it falls. A mouse doesn't."

"The best predictor of a company's bankruptcy is steady earnings."

"Don't cross a river that's on average four feet deep."

~40 min, free. why small, jagged and distributed outlives big, smooth and centralized ↓