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THE STANDARD NATIONAL Attorney-General Kihara Kariuki. [Jonah Onyango, Standard] Attorney-General Kihara Kariuki has filed an appeal challenging High Court’s judgement on Building Bridges Imitative (BBI).  Justice Kihara in his appeal, seeking to set aside the verdict by five High Court judges argues that they erred by declaring that President Uhuru Kenyatta can be sued in person. At the same time, he faults the court for finding that some sections of the Constitution cannot be amended. He...

THE STANDARD NATIONAL Attorney-General Kihara Kariuki. [Collins Kweyu, Standard] Attorney-General Kihara Kariuki on Tuesday withdrew his application seeking to suspend High Court judgement on Building Bridges Initiative even after five judges directed they would rule on the same next week. The AG, in his letter addressed to the court, said the application should be marked as withdrawn.  He had on Saturday filed an urgent application before the High Court to suspend the judges’ decision pendi...

THE STANDARD POLITICS President Uhuru Kenyatta speaks during a joint statement with Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan at the State House, in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 4, 2021. [Reuters, Baz Ratner] President Uhuru Kenyatta has been exposed politically by Thursday’s High Court ruling, which could trigger a litany of suits and a possible bid for impeachment. The five-judge Bench accused the president of violating chapter six of the Constitution, after consolidating cases from several litiga...

From the introduction: “….we pursue a hunch that the tensions between POWs were rooted in the disparate socioeconomic backgrounds of the antagonists. The privileged backgrounds of the SROs were in sharp contrast with the modest origins of war resisters. It’s a hunch triggered by clues scattered by Craig Howes in his 1993 book Voices of the Vietnam POWs, and reinforced in Milton Bates’s 1996 The Wars We Took to Vietnam. We use newly available biographical and oral history material to s...

Content warning: descriptions of sexual abuse. Chuck Christian is dying of prostate cancer. He's 61 years old. Christian came forward as one of Dr. Robert Anderson's many victims of sexual abuse over a year ago. By that time, he'd already outlived the terminal prognosis he received four years earlier. His story is devastating. It was as much odd as it was alarming, then, when Christian started to find blood in his bodily fluids in the early 2000s. He begrudgingly made an appointme...

The #1 Rule of Investing From the Wizard of Wall Street  Share   Share “The really great fortunes are made by concentration, not diversification.” — Gerald Loeb, “Maxims of Wall Street,” p. 157 Who is quoted the most in “The Maxims of Wall Street”? Among living legends, the Oracle of Omaha has the gift of wisdom. Warren Buffett is quoted 34 times in the new 7 th edition, and I keep finding new ones for each edition. But the second most quotable guru may surprise you. No, it�...

THE STANDARD Treasury  -  Sh167.8B  , Energy  -  Sh75.4B  ) Environment, water & sanitation   -  Sh7.4B  , KWS community scouts   -  Sh1.0B  , SPENDING BY SECTOR ; ( Transport  -  Sh53.5B  , Sports,culture and tourism  -  Sh18.1B  , Manufacturing & Industrialisation  -  Sh7.5B  ) Geothermal   -  Sh11.3B  , Mombasa Port Development Project   -  Sh7.5B  , LAPSSET  -  Sh4.5B  , Emergency locust response  -  Sh1.8B  , Digital land registries  -  Sh727.3M  , Coal...

WHY and How Lady Justice Martha Koome beat Fred Ngatia SC to be nominated Chief Justice of Kenya Lady Justice Martha Koome Karambu has been tipped to be the next Chief Justice of Kenya, highly placed sources based at State House have revealed. Koome, who has more than thirty years of experience in legal practice, and was born Kithiu Village in Miragamieru in Meru County, edged out Senior Consel Fred Ngatia who was a favourite candidate of the system. Kenya News Day reliably learnt that Justice ...

[ Music] abu huzayfah: And the guy cried—was crying and screaming. He did not die after the first time. The second time or so, he probably just slouched over. That was— rukmini callimachi: How hard is it to put a knife into somebody? abu huzayfah: It’s hard. I had to stab him multiple times. In Chapter Five of New York Times, a young Canadian named Shehroze Chaudhry explains how he came to stab a man in the heart on behalf of the Islamic State. Back in 2014, Chaudhry, who went by the no...

THE STANDARD POLITICS From left: Exiting IEBC Commissioners Consolata Nkatha, Margaret Wanyala and former commissioner Dr Roselyne Kwamboka at the Supreme Court, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] The process to recruit four commissioners to the national electoral agency, 15 months to the General Election, will commence on Thursday. This is after President Uhuru Kenyatta officially declared vacancies of four commissioners to the Independence Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), who resigne...