Former minister Njenga Karume’s children from left Jane Mukuhi, Albert Kigera, Samuel Wanjema and Lucy Wanjiru [File/Standard] The Family Court has cleared the way for relatives of the late former Cabinet minister Njenga Karume to share his vast wealth. Justice Patricia Nyaundi directed that Karume’s assets, worth billions of shillings, should be shared by the agreement of his family. The judge threw out the protests by Njenga’s widow, Grace Karume, and his son, Samuel Karume, finding that the tycoon’s wishes had taken care of everyone in the family. The petitioners had raised questions on who the beneficiaries of Karume’s son, Joseph Karume, were and how much they ought to get from the…
Author: Kamau Muthoni
Court gavel. (Courtesy) High Court has overturned a life sentence handed to a convict who sodomised a 55-year-old man, terming it too excessive. Instead, Justice Nixon Sifuna ordered that Joseph Kimani Waithera should serve ten years behind bars. “As to the sentence of an uncapped, undefined, open-ended, and blanket life imprisonment, I find it not only absurd but also unreasonable. I also find it excessive in the totality of the circumstances of the case, including mitigating, I reduce to a term of 10 years imprisonment,” ruled Justice Sifuna. Kimani was charged in 2016 with rape and committing an indecent act…