Ayuko Lizz

Our children are being stolen. Between Jan 2025–Mar 2026, Kenya recorded 10,581 child protection cases,1,952 abductions, 173 trafficking cases. That is 23 children a day. Last week in Githurai, a 2-year-old was kidnapped by a teenager sent to steal a child for a phone. In Juja, residents shut down the Thika Superhighway after 4 children vanished in two weeks. In Central Kenya, 372 violence-against-children incidents in under a year. This is a national emergency. The Penal Code provides for life imprisonment for kidnappers. I want to see DCI and DPP match that seriousness with urgent investigations and full prosecutions, not just press releases. To every Kenyan, watch the children around you. Speak up and report because if we do not protect our children, we have failed at the most fundamental duty of a society. Our children are not a footnote. They are our future.

Yesterday, the High Court delivered a significant judgment in Petition E490/2025 (HSO & 3 Others v. ODPP & 4 Others) that will reshape Kenya's approach to adolescent sexuality and criminal law. The Court ruled that the misapplication of the Sexual Offences Act to prosecute adolescents engaged in consensual, non-coercive peer relationships violates their constitutional rights to equality, dignity, privacy, health, education and the best interest of the child. This judgment addresses a documented tension in our legal framework. While the Sexual Offences Act was enacted to shield children from sexual abuse and exploitation, it has been applied broadly against adolescents in consensual peer relationships while ignoring their evolving capacities and driving them where they cannot access sexual and reproductive health services out of fear of prosecution. The Court's directives are clear. The ODPP must publish prosecutorial guidelines distinguishing consensual peer relationships from exploitative conduct, the National Police Service must review arrest protocols and State organs must develop coordinated policies ensuring adolescents can access SRH information without fear. But we must ask the difficult questions. Against the backdrop of Kenya's escalating GBV and femicide crisis will this judgment inadvertently create loopholes that perpetrators exploit? The ODPP has previously employed diversion mechanisms in cases involving teenagers yet concerns persist about weaponization of these alternatives. The criminal justice system has failed women and girls through inadequate investigations, delayed prosecutions and impunity for perpetrators. Distinguishing consensual peer relationships from exploitation becomes so subjective that predatory conduct escapes accountability under the guise of consent. Without precise legislative safeguards, we risk creating interpretive gaps that undermine hard-won protections for children particularly girls who bear the burden of sexual violence. Who determines genuine consent among adolescents of varying maturity levels? How do we prevent this progressive protection from eroding gains in combating child sexual abuse in a country grappling with what many have called a national GBV and femicide crisis? Reform of the Sexual Offences Act remains urgent but it must be survivor-centered and grounded in the realities of GBV in Kenya. We need legislative amendments that protect juveniles from sexual violation without victimizing them for age-appropriate peer relationships while tightening enforcement against exploitation and abuse. The judgment's legacy will depend entirely on its implementation and future interpretation by courts and prosecutors. Only time will tell whether the promised guidelines will include safeguards that prevent manipulation by those who seek to exploit power imbalances. As we monitor this decision closely, one principle must remain non-negotiable, justice must protect the vulnerable not create new vulnerabilities.

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through a fungal network. Where octopuses dream. Where elephants return to the bones of the deceased and stand over them in silence. Where bees use dance to communicate where to fly and where the flower is. Where crows remember the faces of people who were cruel to them and pass this memory to their children. Where ants build cities. Where cats purr at a frequency that accelerates the healing of bones. Where, after a forest fire, the first thing the earth does is grow flowers.

Lmao I have 2. Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi. Mother Teresa let dying patients be treated with blunt reused needles, had a mortality rate about 40% in her clinics and when she was confronted about the conditions, said there’s something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, and to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. Doctors called her facilities “homes for the dying”. And cancer patients were given aspirin for pain. Gandhi too, the face of universal peace, the person that said “be the change you wish to see”, spent years in South Africa describing Black Africans as “savage”, “dirty” and living like animals. He campaigned actively to prove to British rulers that Indians were superior to native Black Africans. He also organized a brigade to help suppress a Zulu uprising. His defenders say he evolved. Maybe. Nobody likes to talk about the entire sides of history. And these are their summarized versions btw.

I’m quite against posting kids online, but I there’s this amazing lawyer & doctor couple raising such intelligent children that I love to watch. So inspiring.

@citizentvkenya This coming from a Cabinet Secretary is just unbelievable.

CS Murkomen: When I was in the Senate in the last administration, I was a very serious critic of the way the oil prices were being handled by the government. You should give us credit that no life was lost; we never organized a protest. The leaders of the matatu industry at that point in time never protested against the government. You should ask yourselves why did they feel that it was okay to understand Uhuru Kenyatta, but when it is President Ruto, they should go to the streets? There must be a certain level of profiling that applies to William Ruto and not Uhuru Kenyatta

I love when couples really understand the concept of growing and building together. It’s beautiful

A Case is only an Authority for what it decides and not what logically flows from it. Not every statement made in passing may be cited as a holding of a decision.

Maiden physical appearance at the High Court on behalf of the Deputy President in the Impeachment Case. Very honoured to have appeared before the three-judge bench&humbled to hear my Pupil Master, Mentor,Good Friend and our Lead Counsel,Dr Muthomi SC,take pride in his mentorship.

The revised LL.B curriculum introduces emerging areas such as Artificial Intelligence Law, Cybersecurity Law FinTech Regulation &Digital Governance to prepare future-ready legal professionals #LegalEducation #CurriculumReform @FAOKenya @EUinKenya @CLE_Kenya @ProfOdote @Kibugy

There’s no perfect partner. But there’s a kind and considerate partner, and that’s just about it.

When I was in Chiromo in the early 2000s sometimes the loos were so bad I’d take a matatu to Sarit to take a poo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

“This version of motherhood is not available in your region”

@jeseeker1 Someone that dropped one single to demand money from her debtor , she is very petty 😂

I think people forgot that she’s 50 Cent for the women when it comes to petty

oh rihanna is so real for that omfg😭🥹

Social media has convinced an entire generation that ordinary human behavior requires a diagnostic label. This isn't healthy.

The rule of thumb is this: DON'T VOTE FOR JOURNALISTS AND CELEBRITIES. They thrive on clout, relevance and propaganda.

When two heads of state meet to discuss how to whip and discipline citizens demanding accountability, we’ve crossed from democracy into dictatorship. President Suluhu’s call for President Ruto to join her in suppressing Gen Zs is a conspiracy against constitutional rights. The audacity to frame calls for good governance as notorious behaviour that must be tamed is an insult to every freedom our constitutions guarantee. Democracy is anchored on the fundamental pillars of the rule of law, human rights and accountable leadership. These aren’t negotiable. If exercising our constitutional right to protest makes us deserving of canes and whips then our leaders have forgotten who they serve. We will not be silenced. We will not be beaten into submission. The Constitution is our shield and defender and not the whims of those who fear accountability.

Birds chirp an hour before dawn and the frequency opens up the stomata of the plants to breathe. The frequency is common in classical music. Play classical to your plants for MUCH larger crops. Its called sonicbloom.