Kelvin Mugambi Kubai
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“That’s something I share with my grandfather,”
Kelvin Mugambi Kubai · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-03
Kubai explains that standing against injustice is something he shares with his grandfather, a Mau Mau fighter.
“I will not stand by while injustice reigns.”
Kelvin Mugambi Kubai · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-03
Kubai says a Swahili song came to mind with the lyric 'I will not stand by while injustice reigns.'
“They were using a hundred-year-old trick on me,”
Kelvin Mugambi Kubai · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-03
Kubai says the British army was using a hundred-year-old trick on him, but this time it did not work.
“It was shocking to me because I was facing the same defendant in essentially the same situation, and they came back with the same defence,”
Kelvin Mugambi Kubai · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-03
Kubai recalls being shocked that the British army raised the same sovereign immunity defence used a century earlier against the Maasai.
“From that day, that case never escaped my mind,”
Kelvin Mugambi Kubai · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-03
Kubai tells Al Jazeera that the 1913 colonial case Ol le Njogo v. Attorney General never escaped his mind after he encountered it in law school.
“When I brought up the case to my former professor, his answer was a blanket ‘No, you cannot sue the army; they have sovereign immunity,’”
Kelvin Mugambi Kubai · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-03
Kubai recalls that his former professor told him he could not sue the army because of sovereign immunity.
“I can't cower from standing against injustices, and I can’t be silent in the face of evil.”
Kelvin Mugambi Kubai · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-03
Kubai says he cannot cower from standing against injustices or be silent in the face of evil.