Let's be honest before the WPP Scangroup AGM on 8 June: WPP plc holds 56.26%. Even if every minority shareholder votes for change, WPP outvotes us all. And Article 29.6 lets them appoint or remove the Board by a single written notice.
Students must understand that there are consequences when they set other human beings on fire.
When I visited Naivasha maximum prison I met the only suspect sentenced to death for the May 24, 1999 arson attack in Nyeri High School that claimed the lives of four prefects.
The student was 33 years old or thereabout when I met him. He was convicted by a juvenile court and later committed to life imprisonment after he turned 18.
The 2001 Kyanguli fire tragedy claimed the lives of 67 students. Two 16-year-olds were arrested and charged with murder. The judge handling the matter resigned in 2006 amid corruption-related allegations. A new judge declared the court matter a mistrial.
I took my time with the file, and it was clear that someone had done everything to make sure the two boys escaped justice. I tracked one down to an office in the CBD. He is somewhere out here.
The July 13, 1991, St Kizito High School massacre remains the most disturbing and heart-wrenching story I have covered.
The boys stormed the girls' dormitory. Reason? They had refused to join them in a strike.
In the ensuing violence, 71 school girls were raped and 19 of them lost their lives, mostly due to suffocation after being tightly packed into a corner during the attack.
Some were arrested and as usual, parents worked the justice system and many escaped the hangman’s noose.
But in a dark twist of events, most of the accused “turned mad”, and others ended up as drunks.
I remember visiting a lady now in her fifties who was still overwhelmed by the events of that night- oh she cried.
I met most of the boys then now men. Drunkards. Wasted.
Let’s see how the tragic Utumishi Fire tragedy plays out but if the prosecution proves those arrested are involved, it will be the end of school and freedom.
I have been to Nyeri, St Kizito, Kyanguli, Endarasha, and Bombolulu Girls' High School.
It's a life-changing experience!
No amount of justice or compensation can bring back the lives lost.
I'm now convinced if there was an asteroid headed straight towards America, and they requested for it to be directed elsewhere Ruto will suggest Kenya
A head of state who hates his country is a danger to all citizens
The Taliban told me stories from their battles.
They would attach some PKM trigger to a piece of comically long string on the side of a mountain.
Then when the Americans pass some kid would pull the trigger and run
The Americans would spent $500k calling in air strikes, spend an hour bunkered down firing at the mountain.
The next day the Taliban would come in and collect $300 worth of scrap metal from the airstrike and sell it for bread and the Americans would claim in their newspaper that they had zero casualties during an engagement with 20 Taliban that they “eliminated”.
From DM:
My main problem with President Macron and France is what I saw in the Sahel region (Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Mauritania, and parts of Cameroon) a few years ago. I helped a company set up branches in almost all African countries except the Sahel region.
We had to get a business permit from France in order to set up a branch there. The requirements were out of this world. At some point, we even had to pay some business permit fees to France instead of Cameroon. Tell Kenyans not to tolerate that man at all.
YouTubers be like “wake up at 4am and run, that’s alpha!” No, it’s not. Look at apex predators; they’re all lazy. Bears hibernate, lions sleep all day. You know who wakes up at 4am and runs? Squirrels.
Deep gratitude for the people's lawyer, SC John Khanimwa. He spent over 6hrs at central police station Jana and was there all day Jana till comrades were released. I hated the way they treated him and remained in awe of his resilience and patriotism.
#KickFranceOutOfKenya
Macron stopped an African person deep into presentation, to tell African leaders they are been noisy and to keep it down.
This is the humiliation that Ruto reduced us to.