Kipkoech B. Ng'etich (KBN)

10/11/2026

It is not easy to disagree with the THE STANDARD when the judiciary approaches matters of enforcement of fundamental rights and freedoms lackadaisically. Deserving and urgent applications for bond and cash bail get burried in judicial red tape and bureaucracy,seminars, worshops and collegia. A few judges and magistrates would not stand state excesses.They move with alacrity and restore human dignity and the rule of Law.We laid them. We support an efficient and effective judiciary and we call on the Chief Justice Martha K. Koome to listen more to the cries and heartfelt concerns of Kenyans. The judiciary ought to be the last line of defence against state excesses and violation of the rights of the voiceless and indigent.

The security apparatus of the Country cannot detain a person for more than 24 hours without arraignmment in Court. Nobody else can detain a person for whatever reason unless it is a citizen arrest for onward transmission to the police. Abshir Ahmedsadak Abdi should be released forthwith. This Country is a graveyard of abductions, kidnapings and killings in the hands of our security apparatus.We cannot take more of such atrocious actions. #EnoughlsEnough #ReleaseAbshirAhmedSadakAbdi

Our land, Kenya is a crime scene both at the National and County levels. We fashion grand and life changing projects.We overborrow to fund such projects whose bill of quantities are exaggerated. We spend more to build a diesel powered SGR when our neighbours spend less for an electric railway system.We have now saddled generations with debt which was looted and stolen.The taxman is extracting everything from the taxpayer to raise enough revenue for servicing of strokem loans/debt.Is it a problem of the voter or elected leader?

The Rule of law and Constitutionalism are critical pillars of any state and government development.There are no two ways about it. Those who mock the Constitution, rule of law and constitutionalism and focus on infrastructure development without more will rue the day they will be out of power and a similar dose of medicine is applied.

Ferdinand Waititu's corruption and economic crimes cases are sad by lot.Sad because Ferdinand has dragged his family through serious economic crimes.Very sad because Waititu is a solid representative of blatant looting that takes place in most County Governments. The only success story of devolution today is successful decentralisation of stealing and cartelism to Counties in most Counties.As a result, professionalism and industry have been replaced with insane and immoral acquisition by phantoms and busybodies. In the final analysis, without prejudice to any Appeal that may be mounted, the conviction is a win for devolution, professionalism and industry. The conviction should be seen in most Counties that operate as looters' paradise without any realisation of County functions in Schedule 4 of the COK 2010.

Raila Odinga shepherded the current Constitution through referendum and subsequent promulgation on the 27th of August 2010 by President Mwai Kibaki.May the two soldiers continue resting in peace. Raila was a political collusus who bestraddled our political runway for decades.Had so much influence and power without a political office since 2013.His courage and tenacity were unmatched. His forays into the Building Bridges Initiative (Bibiyai) was quickly strangled by the court.The Courts slammed the brakes on the BBI brothers from amending the Constitution. As we reflect on the life of Raila A. Odinga,it is worth the while to introspect on how much the COK 2010 has changed our lives.Out of respect for Baba,we should also resolve to slay the dragons that frustrate good governance,transparency and accountability under Article 10 and Chapter 6 of the COK 2010.

It was Horace Mann, who said that education is the great equaliser. Education opens wide doors of opportunities and prosperity to the poor and indigent. That is why Kenya should pass a law that entrenches free and compulsory basic education from Kindergarten through colleges to the University in all public Schools pursuant to Article 43 of the Constitution.Our budget can sustain it. Abolish all the other bursaries that do very little to the poor.They add more misery to the poor and the underprivileged. So much red tape, bureaucracy, corruption ,nepotism and discrimination that hurt the needy. Teachers from ECD through Universities be paid reasonable remuneration. A strike by dons hurt poor parents/guardians and their students more than anybody else.The students in private Colleges/Universities study without distraction when those in public schools are pushed to the periphery. With about 1,000,000 students wasting time and money in campus, the Country loses astronomically. The Government should deploy all lawful arsenal in its armoury and end the dons' strike NOW to give real meaning to education being a great equaliser in our society.

In life, you meet people with diverse traits, talents and energies. Law Society of Kenya has had many men and women with distinct characteristics. I will not mention @ahmednasirlaw SC, Jacqueline Manani and Aluso Ingati. Byron Menezes and Sylvester Mbithi are known for singular resolve and super energy especially in the compaign trail.The two gentlemen, in my view are some of the few advocates, dead or alive, to comb every court station in the Country across Kenya in search for votes. Then enter Gordon Fred Odhiambo Ogola. In his earlier days, Gordon would command all advocates in Nakuru to boycott a court after member's resolution to do the same has been made. He would be in Court early morning,to personally wade off those advocates who wanted to rescue their clients' matters against the boycott resolution.I would not call those advocates traitors. He would not allow you to enter the Court targeted for boycott.He would do it dutifully for a week and the top brass of the judiciary would respond and budge with a withdrawal of the targeted judicial officer. Then happened @NelsonHavi with untrammeled energy.He declares war and fights from the sky, from the land and from the water. He writes letters.Takes to the social media.Then mobilises his soldiers to act physically. The struggle happens day and night for days and months. No turning back even with serious casualties on his side. Across the judiciary, I have seen one Judge who radiates life, super energy, moxie, military command and leaves of humour. Does her work some how.Talks with confidence. Advises parties sufficiently. Appears focused with her work. She got the drama, energy and confidence of an evangelist and a motivational speaker. Total grip of the audience.That is lady Justice Kavedza-Mochache. One may want to do a study on what these people eat and drink . What is their motivation. What drives them when they wake up in the morning and what else contributes to their idiosyncratic energies and tenacity.

Lessons from the past as we face the future: 1. A person who scratched your back even once deserves support and respect many times in the future in ordinary life. 2. In politics, the person you have supported, wages the most brutal battle against you if your support ceases now.Keep supporting. 3. He who loans out money goes a sorrowing.Give out grants that will not come back.Give again. 4. The world has no mercy over any body.It is brutal and cruel.May the Lord have mercy on you. 5. Aliko Dangote has done Kenya and Africa proud.The kes. 2,100,000,000,000 investment in Lamu will have a huge impact that will tilt our economy.

Hon. George Muchai, former MP Kabete, and his body guards as well as his driver were gunned down by criminals in one of the most daring killings in Kenya carried out in the capital city. 11 years later, his killers have been convicted and face a bleak future perhaps death as well. Granted, this is justice delayed but not denied. Justice has no sell by date in some cases. Lesson: do not kill anyone for whatever reason except those grounds permitted by the law. There is nowhere to hide for killers.

He was an insider until the day @DrFredMatiang withdrew his GSU security and replaced them with APs across the country. When he protested by informing the public that he could even take G4S security officers,Dr. Matiang'i decided to share an alleged list of WSR's properties across the country that were being guarded by the state 😁😂🤣.

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC) and the Supreme Court of Kenya declared that William Samoei Ruto won the Presidency in the 2022 Presidential election albeit with a small margin. Why didnt he cook fat figures if he could cook results. Uhuru Kenyatta says that Raila Odinga won the election but for mischief by some shrewd and mischievious human beings like Jose Carmago.Uhuru with the system,Baba the institution and money was outsmarted by an outsider WSR? We joke a lot as a country.

The Colonialist has never moved on. Kenya is a great country. It is an athletics powerhouse. The horses have bolted from the stable.

World Athletics Council (WAC) has confirmed that Kenya is a great nation. A win for Kenya. A win for Africa. A win for athletes in Kenya. A win for athletics coaches. May the 2029 athletics extravaganza lift us higher up there in the Comity of nations. #A New dawn beckons

10/09/027 General election will be brutal. It will be a very dangerous experiment for charlatans and criminals . It will not be about casting of votes without more. Many things will be on the ballot. Corruption, bribery, land grabbing, employment, business opportunities, arrogance, good health, safe and adequate drinking water, good roads, justice and fairness, agri-business and value addition, goons, mediocrity,good governance and prosperity. You have a date with history. May the good lord and good sense guide you.

Small scale tea farmers ought to divorce @KTDAHoldingsLtd once and for all. The board chair was on the ground giving the usual outmoded lectures of two leaves and a bud. This is what tea farmers do in West of Rift. KTDA is a big cartel. A few blue - eyed boys and girls siphon blood from tea farmers. For a small case in Sotik Court, KTDA sends advocates from Nairobi, at the expense of tea farmers, leaving good lawyers in the panel based in Bomet, Sotik and Kericho. Tea farmers pay agency fee to KTDA to manage tea factories and market tea products.They do not do that. Like Ministry of Agriculture top mandarins, these national KTDA directors troop to tea factories to give tired and otiose lectures to farmers instead of pushing for reopening of markets in Sudan, Chad and Iran. They need to engage Counties to hire agricultural extension officers to educate tea farmers on the right husbandry and modern tea clones. They should engage the national government on review of the Tea Act to allow for direct tea sales. Time to disengage KTDA and pursue direct sales of tea after value addition.

The National Police Service was established to maintain law and order as well as to protect lives and property. In June 2026, a vehicle belonging to the Regional Criminal Investigation Officer Rift valley was used in an attempted abduction against Alex Kiprotich of the Standard Media Group. The incidence was booked at Menengai Police station and nothing happened subsequently todate. Yesterday, on 1/9/2026, in a gangland style, officers armed to the teeth with arsenals of death abducted Alex and drove him all the way to Masinga Dam. They left footprints everywhere that would save Alex. Nobody apart from terrorists and mercenaries can stage such a daring abduction on an international trunk road. Luckily, the abductors released him after collecting whatever information they had and after intimidating Alex. This is not the security apparatus we want as Kenyans. We joined advocates, journalists and civil society as we called for pronto investigations and prosecution of those officers involved within the next 7 days. The police and guns cannot be used to manage divergent opinions and criticism.