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Exporting a Nation: Why Kenya's Best and Brightest Are Leaving

For generations, migration was seen as a personal choice. Some left for adventure, others for education, and a few in pursuit of better opportunities abroad. Today, something more profound is happening in Kenya. Leaving has become an aspiration. Ask university students what they want after graduation. Ask young doctors completing their internships. Ask software developers, engineers, lecturers and accountants. Increasingly, the answer is remarkably similar: they want out. The dream is no longer to build a life in Kenya. The dream is to escape it. That should trouble us far more than it does. Because when a country reaches a point where its most educated and ambitious citizens increasingly see their futures elsewhere, it is not merely experiencing migration. It is exporting itself. The Great Kenyan Checkout There is nothing unusual about human mobility. People have moved in search of opportunity for centuries. What is unusual is the scale and normalisation of departure. Today, stories o...
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King of Impunity: High Court sentences Acting Police IG Gilbert Masengeli to Six Months in Jail for Contempt of Court



High Court Judge Lawrence Mugambi has sentenced Acting Inspector General of Police Gilbert Masengeli to six months in jail for contempt of court.
Masengeli had disobeyed court summons a record seven times, earning him the dubious distinction of being the only person in Kenya's 60-year history on record for ever doing so.

“Mr Masengeli is ordered to surrender himself to the Commissioner General of Prisons to serve his sentence. In the event he fails to surrender himself to prison, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior must take steps to ensure he is committed to prison to serve his sentence,” ruled Justice Mugambi.
The police boss was required to appear in court to explain circumstances surrounding disappearance of three people in Kitengela. They went missing on August 19.

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