I discovered you can do virtually anything you want using the courts. You can steal land, can con a bank and get away with it, can inherit a person you never met and can harass your enemies.
The CJ stopped interim letters of administration. They are still being issued and used.
I can grab your land Pundit and this is how:
I proceed to the lands office and have the green card amended to read my name. All relevant documents be changed. It is easier if you have not taken the title deed. But if you have, I just use the police to get it back. An illegal search of your home while you are away at work will get me what I want. I would destroy any evidence of you owning the land.
However if that fails, I will have your documents declared fake and you may face charges. I will wait for you to go to court then buy the handwriting and documents expert to say your documents are fake.
End of the story.
That is why witchdoctors are doing roaring business.
Once at the High court to witness in a land case, I had somebody following me from the parking pouring some ash in my wake. I usually have somebody to look after my life discreetly out of view, so he took care of it. The judge never turned up.
On my next visit somebody suddenly dropped some file in front of me. I was rushing to retrieve it and hand it back when some woman grabbed me and said "don't". Utapata shida, ni uchawi. Sure as hell nobody else was bothered. I sat the court for hours and on my way out the file was still on the ground. Needless to say the case was moved to two different court rooms before settling in the third where the judge said he had "stood over" the matter!
They have developed some unique vocabulary and lingua that you have to learn.
On the day I testified, I came face to face with what I detest most - mediocrity. The judge had to write every word I said. And he was slow! He spoke Miguna Miguna english - the type that lacks that proverbial "smoothness". I don't mean one speaks with an accent or even without mistakes. His language betrayed a guy who does not read and has never read since he graduated. Besides he was drunk or still suffering the effects.
I have to confess once he learned who I was, he was very friendly and rushed to complete the matter. I was truthful to the letter and refused to be used to lie for either side.
I later learned that the only reason the case was heard is because the court clerk bribed to cause indefinite adjournments had not been at work for a week, leaving "his" files with other clerks who demanded more money which our person had failed to pay.
Most folks avoid courts for that reason. Mutunga seem to have done nothing to change the system.
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