
Abolish the Kenyan Police FORCE: Reform through Decolonization
Written by Nelson Chege. On the night of December 21, 2018, Carilton David Maina, a student at Leeds University, was fatally shot by police in Laini Saba, Kibra as he walked home from a football game[i]. The almost immediate societal uproar that followed Carliton’s death exposed many other veiled cases of wanton and unnecessary killings
Read MoreLIMITATION OF ACCESS TO JUSTICE ON THE FACE OF COVID-19
Written by Cynthia Njeri and Nyandia Kahiu. Access to justice, provided under Article 48 of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, is a fundamental right that has been affected by COVID-19 pandemic since its first case confirmation in Kenya on the 6th March 2020. On 15th March 2020, the President gave directives[i] that informed a press statement
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FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT IN THE WAKE OF CORONA VIRUS: LEGALITY OF A LOCK-DOWN
Written by Levi Munyeri. Introduction A gale is sweeping across the globe, wreaking the foundations of human interaction like nothing the world has witnessed in post-world wars era. The last time the world witnessed a pandemic of similar devastation was the deadly Influenza Pandemic of 1918 that extinguished an approximate 40 million people.[1] A striking
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