COURT & LEGAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
Lawyer Danstan Omari has dismissed rumours circulating on social media that Central Police Station OCS, Mr. Taalam, was arrested in Eldoret. Speaking to the press outside Lang’ata Police Station, Omari clarified that his client was not arrested but voluntarily presented himself at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters in Nairobi. This followed statements made […]
The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has formally arraigned James Mukhwana, a police officer at Nairobi’s Central Police Station, as the primary suspect in the death of Albert Ojwang, who died while in police custody. IPOA is seeking 21 working days to detain Mukhwana to complete ongoing investigations. According to IPOA’s Senior Assistant Director of […]
IPOA has moved to court seeking for orders compelling Safaricom to let them access phone numbers of persons allegedly involved in the the killing of blogger Albert Ojwang over the weekend. They want an order issued to their Investigators Abdirahman Jibril, authorizing him to investigate, access, obtain, and take copies of documents relating to account […]
Mount Kenya Jurists have moved to court seeking for the removal of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Eliud Lagat for his hand in the arrest, torture, and subsequent death of blogger Albert Ojwang while in police custody. In the application filed in court, they also want the court to restrain him Lagat from accessing his office, […]
The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) is expected to file a miscellaneous application in court seeking to detain James Mukhwana, a police officer stationed at Nairobi’s Central Police Station, for 21 working days as investigations into the custodial death of Albert Ojwang continue. According to IPOA’s Senior Assistant Director of Investigations, Abdirahaman Jibril, Mukhwana is […]
A man accused of falsely claiming to be the son of a Kenyan woman has been ordered to put on his defence by the Milimani Law Court. Milimani Principal Magistrate Rose Ndombi ruled that Abdihakim Said Jama has a case to answer in connection with charges of obtaining registration by false pretences and being unlawfully […]
The protracted and highly contested burial dispute involving the late Mzee Mburu Kinani the adoptive father of Kiambu County Deputy Governor Rosemary Kirika has finally been resolved. The Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi have ruled that Mzee Mburu’s body will be laid to rest at his ancestral home in Gatanga, Murang’a County, beside the grave […]
The high court has this afternoon issued orders stopping transfer of the Public Seal from the custody of the Attorney General to the Head of Public Service in the executive office of the President. This is after lobby group Katiba Institute moved to court challenging the said move arguing that it was illegal. In his […]
In a major legal victory, the High Court has overturned a 35-year prison sentence handed to Hussein Hassan Ali, the director of Mwangaza Schools in Garissa, who had been convicted of defilement. The decision, delivered by Justice Alexander Muteti, was met with celebration from Hussein’s lawyer, Danstan Omari, and his family. Justice Muteti ruled that […]
A Nairobi high court on Thursday dismissed a constitutional petition that had been filed challenging the Youth Bill 2024 ruling that it was premature. Justice Bahati Mwamuye ruled that the petition was premature saying that the impugned Bill had not yet been formally tabled before Parliament when the case was filed. Further, the court said […]
