Kenya: More Happy Tidings for Julius Wambua, This Time From Kalembe Ndile allafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from allafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Over the years we ve done a number of stories about wrongly convicted prisoners who get exonerated when a crusading attorney takes on their case. In prisons around the world, however, that rarely happens. In Kenya, for example, more than 80% of prisoners have never been represented by a lawyer. Justice Defenders would like to change that. It s an organization started in Africa by a soft-spoken, 35-year-old lawyer named Alexander McLean. Justice Defenders has worked in 46 prisons in Kenya and Uganda, giving legal training to hundreds of inmates who can then help their fellow prisoners, the innocent and the guilty, get a fair hearing in court. They are also helping some prisoners get law degrees, and as we found out when we visited Kenya before the pandemic, the results have been astounding.
Kenyans Donate to Man Framed For Defiling Daughter
21 December 2020 - 12:16 pm
Julius Wambua and his daughter Dorcas when they left the Kamiti Maximum Prison on December 18, 2020.
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Kenyans have come to the aid of Julius Wambua, a man who was recently released from the Kamiti Maximum Prison after a court invalidated his life sentence.
Wambua, who had been jailed for an offence he didn t commit, had opened up about his struggles settling down in the community, saying that he had no place to call home.
Former Kibwezi MP Kalembe Ndile has since gifted Wambua a 2-acre piece of land and has offered to build him a house.
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The pinstripe suit Isaac Kimaru wears to work inside Kenya s Kamiti Maximum Security Prison lacks the grandeur of bespoke tailoring often donned by law school graduates in courts around the world. Like those he advises, the slender paralegal is subject to the unmistakable black and white stripes of incarceration.
For about a decade, life in prison is all that Kimaru has known.
The son of a teacher whose father died when he was ten-years-old, Kimaru said he came from humble means in Kenya. At 25, he described being in his second year of law school when he began spending time with bad company and robbing cars to fund his lavish lifestyle. The transgressions, and Kenyan authorities, caught-up with Kimaru and arrested him in 2010. Two years later, he was convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison.