Peter Wanyama
@pwanyama
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Legal Compliance Specialist https://t.co/l8JXQPzSEA Team Leader at Manyonge Wanyama & Associates LLP. [email protected]
Nairobi
Joined April 2009
A few days ago, if President Ruto sneezed, Standard Newspapers would publish his photo in the headlines with the caption ' A Sick Nation." Today, I checked the headline. I will do so tomorrow again! Lessons - a conflation of politics and business drives the editorial agenda
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Someone should tell Hon. Robert Alai not to try and justify impunity and hedonistic behaviour from the Kibra MP. The MP for Kibra should be arrested pronto and charged with various traffic violations. A leader should represent his people within the law. Not outside the law.
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In my 18 years of law practice, I have trained more than 40 lawyers. What I have observed is that most law graduates are generally well versed in and are knowledgeable on the basic aspects of the law but often ignore basic communication skills that are essential in the drafting
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Mwalimu Elisha Ongoya was admitted in 2005, but in my view, he tops the list of the Senior Counsel applicants. At least 50 other applicants, including Dr. Muthomi Thiankolu rank highly.
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Why should VAT be increased? The best solution is to cut corruption, wasteful projects, and down-size the government. If the World Bank has any power over our government, it should use it to force austerity measures and not to increase taxes. When you increase taxes-the people
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Benjamin Cardozo's book ' The Nature of the Judicial Process' is impossible to resist. When it was published in early 19th century, the ideas in the book became immediately, immeasurably, and immutably influential. As a practitioner, I am interested to learn about the
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In my 18 years of law practice I have seen numerous incidents of fraud in the land sector. Let me illustrate one scenario. 1. X sells land to Y in 1980. 2. Y moves into the land and sets up a family home. 3. X dies in 1996. 4. In 2020 X's spouse goes to a lawyer and says the
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Ideally, it is the High Court and not the ELRC that has jurisdiction to address the constitutional breaches arising from the recruitment of the 10,000 police officers. No employer/employee relationship has arisen to perforce confer the ELRC with jurisdiction. Kweli rongo ?
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I met my younger self for Coffee today. I lit a cigarette, He left the table. I spoke of money, He spoke of dreams. I showed him my watch, He showed me his sketches. I laughed at his innocence, He cried for my soul. We sat in silence, two strangers in the same skin. ~ Stephen
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By the way, it is not wrong to serve for one term as president. What I am more concerned about is who has better policies to sell to Kenyans to grow up our economy. Sadly, our politics is not based on policies but emotions. We go to the ballot not to vote but to express our
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Why is it that some folks from South Sudan who stay in Nairobi treat Kenyans as shit yet we accommodate them with compassion ? Why throw a woman from a balcony ? Iko shida
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"Never say: It won't happen to me. "I would never do that", because life can be unpredictable and no one is immune to certain things. Everything happens, even what you never imagined..." Robin Williams
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JSC, I need to see your Notice of Appeal. Take the battle to the Court of Appeal...
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