LEGAL INSIGHTS WITH ABIGAEL MOKUA

By Kimberly Odumbe | Advocate Trainee | Two years after Gen Z protesters were shot dead in Kenya's streets, the government has begun paying compensation to victims of protest-related violence dating back to 2013. Here is what the programme covers, who qualifies, and how to file a claim. On 25 June 2024, thousands of young Kenyans, united online and in the streets marched against the Finance Bill 2024 in what became the most consequential act of civic defiance since the push for multiparty democracy in the 1990s. By the end of the demonstrations, at least 62 people were dead, hundreds more lay injured, and dozens had simply vanished. Two years on, the Kenyan government has initiated a formal compensation programme for victims of protest-related human rights violations; a process spanning incidents between 2013 and 2025. The programme, backed by a Ksh 2 billion parliamentary allocation, is being administered through the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) and ove...

By Ibalai Vallary | Ibalai Legal | Advocate Trainee Governments rarely defy courts loudly. They do it quietly, creatively, with enough legal language wrapped around the defiance that it almost looks like compliance. That is exactly what happened in Laikipia. This time, the court was not buying it. It is worth saying upfront why a Kenyan court case should matter to anyone outside Kenya the pattern here is not Kenyan, it is universal. An executive bypasses public process, a court pushes back, and it takes civil society and the press forcing the issue before anyone complies. This is just the clearest recent version of that pattern. Nobody asked Kenya In late May 2026, the White House confirmed plans to quarantine American citizens potentially exposed to Ebola not in America, but at Laikipia Air Base in Kenya, about 200 kilometres north of Nairobi. Kenya had recorded zero Ebola cases in the current outbreak. Let that sit for a second. The DRC had over 1,048 confirmed cases and at...