Electric vehicles (EVs) are not new to Kenya; they have been present in the country for a while. In 2019, the number of electric vehicles stood at over 300. Since then, the number has increased as companies like Nopea Ride continue to rely on electric cars. Also, some individuals have started making the shift. This has been due to these vehicles being more affordable and charging stations becoming widely available. Apart from that, the government has continued to encourage the use of electric vehicles through several policies. For example, the government reduced the excise duty for fully electric cars from…
Author: NLM Team
Kenya has recently been praised for its reliance on renewables, and many countries have looked to emulate the same. However, the recent announcement that the government had committed to constructing a natural gas pipeline from Tanzania’s main city, Dar es Salaam, to Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa and later to the capital, Nairobi, has elicited opposition. Claire Nasike from Greenpeace argues that the country will return to its reliance on renewable energies. With gas being a fossil fuel, investing in it will lead to pollution that will continue to contribute to the climate crisis in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.…
Once a hotpot of community life and health, today’s village ambles along – sad, sick and depressing By David Wanjala It is midday, Saturday, and I am latched to my laptop for the day’s second and last online class. It is the first session of the Semester in Children Law and Policy, and Dr Nancy Barasa of the University of Nairobi is introducing the unit. She is giving a historical background of children and the law. True to her promise that it will not be a lecture but a discourse, she asks learners to share their childhood experiences. Of course,…
Despite the country’s pre-civil war continent-leading economic development, little has occurred to suggest that socioeconomic terms for a post-imperial Ethiopian state might at least partially supplant ethnic identities.
Supreme Court Justice’s seeming frustration with vetting as ‘stressful and unfair’ elicits mixed reactions from the bench and the bar By NLM Writer Judges are opposed to a new round of vetting, Supreme Court judge Justice Isaac Lenaola has said. Speaking at the Judges’ colloquium held in Mombasa during the first week of April, Justice Lenaola said that judges have gone through enough vetting and should be spared the ‘distraction’. Justice Lenaola said that members of the judiciary have bad memories of the previous vetting exercises and are not ready for new ones, in reference to the radical judicial surgery…
By Lydia Manyasi How many limbs will pedestrians break, before holes on walkways are filled?Yes, how will they tell that it’s safe to walk,When shrubs have filled the same holes? The answer, my friend, is in good governance.The answer is in good governance. Hunger and starvation around us all, Yet there is enough to go round.How difficult is it to transport surplus produceTo areas under the yoke of scarcity. The answer, my friend, is in good governance.The answer is in good governance. Do those concerned feign ignoranceThat the causes of cancer can be avoided? Gastro, chest, throat or skin cancer, Grimy automobile exhaust could…
“Kenyans intended that Chapter Six and Article 73 will be enforced in the spirit in which they included them in the Constitution. The people of Kenya did not intend that these provisions on integrity and suitability for public offices be merely suggestions, superfluous or ornamental; they did not intend to include these provisions as lofty aspirations.” – Trusted Society of Human Rights Alliance Vs the AG & Others, Nairobi, HC Pet. No. 229 of 2012. The quote above succinctly answers the nagging questions about the rationale of the legislating behavior and conducts of public officers, and whether such will yield…
The Chair of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Archbishop Emeritus Dr Eliud Wabukala has called on religious heads to ban political activities in churches and demand accountability from political leadership noting that elements within the political class continue to clean and hide their illicit proceeds through donations in churches. Noting that the EACC shares a common interest with religious institutions in shaping the destiny of the nation by championing for integrity, Dr Wabukala urged church leaders to support the existing anti-corruption interventions. Specifically, the EACC Chairman urged church leaders to take the lead in encouraging and educating the faithful through…
The International Commission of Jurists (“ICJ”) has said it stands in solidarity with Al-Haq and five other Palestinian civil society organizations formally designated as “terrorist organizations” on by Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz. On October 19, Israel issued a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as “terrorist organisations”, in a move swiftly condemned by the Palestinian Authority, rights groups, and the United Nations. The ICJ holds that Gantz acted based on the unfounded and unproven allegation that the six groups “belong [to] and constitute an arm of the organization[al] leadership” of the Popular Front for the Liberation…
When Libyan forces swept through Tripoli’s Gergaresh neighbourhood earlier this month in a security crackdown, 17-year-old Eritrean mechanic Hamza* was caught up in the dragnet. Arrested at his home, he was among thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers crammed into Ghot Al Shaal detention centre in unsanitary conditions, before he, with others, escaped. “It was extremely crowded – thousands of people were there. There was no washroom and food was very scarce. It was dire. Because of this, people decided to escape,” he says. The youngster is now among a large crowd of refugees and asylum-seekers gathered outside a Community Day…
