I first saw justice Nambuye on the streets of Machakos town walking with a crowd of children who I later learnt were part of about thirty kids she has adopted and stays with at her residence in Machakos town.
She was dressed very informally with an ankle-length flowery dress which seemed to have seen better days but what stood out was the large rosary hanging from her neck and her bald head which attracted a lot of curious glances from other pedestrians.
Everybody in Machakos knew justice Nambuye was one extremely religious lady and even the local crooked lawyers knew better than to try and approach her for a favor in exchange for cash.
This is why it came as a big shock when she was suspended during the radical surgery to rid off the judiciary corrupt and inept officers. She did not take the accusations lying down and fought tooth and nail to clear her name. It is possible that somebody somewhere assumed that just because her husband, Justice Daniel Aganyanya was on the list, then she too had to be there. Big mistake!!
In an unprecedented move, president Kibaki reinstated her even before the tribunal investigating her completed their job in what many perceive was a mistake in the first place to suspend the lady justice.
When vice president Moody Awori visited Machakos GK prison, he was taken aback when the prisoners presented him with a memorandum, which among other things wanted the reinstatement of lady justice Nambuye.
The prisoners argued that the judge had not only assisted in the construction of a church for the felons but was also involved in a programme that was out to better the living conditions of prisoners not to mention her humility and selflessness.
Apparently, many of those who signed the memorandum had been convicted by the lady justice and it really surprised the president's principal assistant to see convicts come in defense of a judge of all people.
Justice Nambuye is perhaps among the most respected judges in Kenya, her suspension and reinstatement notwithstanding and could be the perfect candidate for the position of the chief justice.
Kenya is yet to have a female chief justice though there are plenty of women in the judiciary including lawyers and judges. What about trying the truly God-fearing Roslyn Nambuye for the job? She could perhaps make a difference similarly to what she has already done for scores of Kenyans without caring which tribe they hail from.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Escalating Crime: Who Would Want To Eliminate A Traffic Policeman?
A bizarre shooting incident took place in Kenya's otherwise quiet sleepy coastal town this past weekend.
A lone gunman waited for a traffic policeman to come out of a restaurant and then shot him dead at point blank range. This latest chilling encounter raises a lot of questions but most of all one burning one; who would want a traffic policeman dead and why?
It would be understandable if the policeman involved dealt with criminals but traffic policemen only deal with matatu drivers and touts. There is of course the possibility that the hit had nothing to do with the man's occupation and could have been linked to his private life. Kenya has become notorious these days for hits targeted at people who can't keep their hands off other people's wives.
This brings to mind one recent early morning encounter on Riara Road in Nairobi where a man was car-jacked and driven to Ngong Road, near the war cemetery where he was given a chance to say goodbye to his lover via a mobile phone before he was shot dead in full view of his young children whom he was taking to school. Rumour has it that the hit men were hired by the woman's accountant husband and the gunmen were so sympathetic of the suffering and mental anguish he had gone through—knowing his wife was coming home late from the office almost daily not because of work (at least not what she had been employed to do) but was in fact dishing out favors that are exclusively supposed to be for him and him alone—that they gave him a huge discount for doing "the job."
Another possibility, albeit a very remote one, is that the traffic policeman would have infuriated some matatu tout or driver somewhere to such an extent that they opted to end his life.
Whatever the motive for this strange murder, chances are high that this latest incident will join a very long list of unsolved murders that the Kenya police have in their bulging cold case files section.
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A lone gunman waited for a traffic policeman to come out of a restaurant and then shot him dead at point blank range. This latest chilling encounter raises a lot of questions but most of all one burning one; who would want a traffic policeman dead and why?
It would be understandable if the policeman involved dealt with criminals but traffic policemen only deal with matatu drivers and touts. There is of course the possibility that the hit had nothing to do with the man's occupation and could have been linked to his private life. Kenya has become notorious these days for hits targeted at people who can't keep their hands off other people's wives.
This brings to mind one recent early morning encounter on Riara Road in Nairobi where a man was car-jacked and driven to Ngong Road, near the war cemetery where he was given a chance to say goodbye to his lover via a mobile phone before he was shot dead in full view of his young children whom he was taking to school. Rumour has it that the hit men were hired by the woman's accountant husband and the gunmen were so sympathetic of the suffering and mental anguish he had gone through—knowing his wife was coming home late from the office almost daily not because of work (at least not what she had been employed to do) but was in fact dishing out favors that are exclusively supposed to be for him and him alone—that they gave him a huge discount for doing "the job."
Another possibility, albeit a very remote one, is that the traffic policeman would have infuriated some matatu tout or driver somewhere to such an extent that they opted to end his life.
Whatever the motive for this strange murder, chances are high that this latest incident will join a very long list of unsolved murders that the Kenya police have in their bulging cold case files section.
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