Renovated Supreme Court Cells Where Raila Was Detained [PHOTOS]
ODM leader Raila Odinga addressing the media outside the Supreme Court building in 2017
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The Judiciary partnered with the National Museums of Kenya to turn the Supreme Court basement, where a number of Kenyan politicians were locked up, into a museum.
The cells inside the basement served as detention areas for political prisoners like George Anyona, Raila Odinga, Maina wa Kinyati,cEdward Oyugi, Willy Mutunga, Koigi Wamwere and many others.
The facility located in the Eastern wing of the Supreme Court Building basement is one of its kind in East Africa.
Fredrick Ngatia has never had to attend a job interview in the past 40 years. Selected as one of the top six students from the Kenya School of Law to join the Attorney General’s office, Ngatia sat across Frank Shields who later become a notorious duty judge as he lit a cigarette and asked the rookie lawyer to choose between criminal prosecution and civil litigation.
Ngatia chose civil litigation and takes great pride that he subsequently added a 9,000 square-kilometre hump to the map of Kenya at the border with Sudan. He had begun to inquire into the Ilemi Triangle, and his thesis for a Master of Laws degree at the London School of Economics shaped Kenya’s case when it acquired the territory of over 9,696 square kilometres.
I Was at Alliance - Judge s Comment Becomes Mother of Online Jokes
16 April 2021 - 3:56 pm
Justice David Majanja and senior counsel Phili Murgor during the Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) interviews on Friday, April 16.
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Justice David Majanja became an internet sensation on Friday, April 16, during the interview of Senior Counsel Philip Murgor for the position of Chief Justice by the Judiciary Service Commission (JSC).
Majanja was confirming details surrounding a 1990 case where second liberation heroes like George Anyona, Ngotho Kariuki and Edward Oyugi, were prosecuted by Murgor, when he mentioned that he was an Alliance High School alumnus. I m asking these questions because you were there and although history is documented, I was not there. In 1990, I was in form four, Majanja stated before he remembered that he had not indicated at the Alliance High School.
April 3rd 2021 at 15:28:35 GMT +0300
Ever since the return of multi-party democracy, Kenya has never realised any freshly-minted president with all of the country’s four presidents being drawn from the old guard.
Retired presidents Daniel Moi and Mwai Kibaki were all veterans whose political careers date back to pre-independence days while President Uhuru Kenyatta served as Cabinet Minister and Deputy Prime Minister before rising to the top job.
He was first nominated as MP in October 1999 when Mark Too resigned to pave way for his entry to Parliament before he was elevated to become Minister for Local Government.
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