Edwin H. Dande
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Delivering souls to heaven vs. entertaining revelers & sinners are totally different skills: As someone who knows something about distressed real estate and investments, it would be wrong not to speak: 1. First shocker was to learn the hotel was offloaded to the church by a church elder? What a conflict of interest. 2. If indeed the goal is genuinely to save the hotel, then why not issue shares to congregants? Just create 700 million shares of 1 shilling each so that those who put in money own something. After all they are being asked to clean up a mess that is not their making. Why ask for the money for free? 3. What is the church doing running a beach hotel, which can’t make money without a fair amount of sins and sinners? They need to exit anyways, members should take the auction and run, otherwise the leadership will be back bowl in hand with a new set of stories. 4. Why is the good Reverend saying that a beach hotel is a strategic asset to a church? The argument is not supported. He just says it’s a spiritual issue to evade scrutiny. I don’t see how ministry stops because a beach hotel is gone. 5. If you don’t sell it, PCEA members must be prepared that Milele beach will be to them what KQ is to tax payers… never ending bailouts and stories year in year out. Brethren, cut and run! But if you must bail it out, ask for shares, but even then in the end it will make loses since it’s not your core business and you will eventually sell anyways. 6. And it’s obnoxious they are going to state house to seek public funds for bailout? Why would tax payers pay for this?
Edwin H. Dande123,697 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
We need to have more of these kinds of conversations and voices about self determination. No more hiding behind marginalization and elite Kikuyu privilege to explain away incompetence, it does not change anything. Good job Odhiambo Otieno. Keep at it.
Edwin H. Dande116,288 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
Today I addressed court on 3 things : 1. SALE OF SUPERIOR HOMES stake: We support the sale of Superior Homes Kenya, (SHK) stake and have withdrawn and or settled ALL suits paving the way for the valuation and sale. As long as the valuation and sale is Transparent and the stake offered to the highest bidder, we shall support that sale, which can be concluded FAST so that creditors are paid. SHK is a great company with a great track record of developing GreenPark Estate on Mombasa road, Pazuri at Vipingo, Lukenya Plains, Lake Elementaita Mountain Lodge, Arcadia and recently partnered with the Uhuru’s in Northland… it’s one of the best portfolios. 2. The Masquerading Official Receiver: Mark Gakuru should NOT be addressing court, should have NO AUDIENCE UNTIL he can show us his appointment letter in line with Section 701 of the Insolvency Act. (He is in office illegally, should be removed quickly, thereafter refund tax payers for all illegal salaries drawn.) 3. CONTEMPT: We still want the contempt against Gakuru prosecuted with regard to failure to account for over kes. 60 million of funds collected from the Alma project… funds that should be going to either project completion or paying creditors. million. We will not allow akin to fraud insolvency processes to continue unchallenged!
Edwin H. Dande30,378 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
I have been saying it for years that “education investment policy” is the biggest legal and regulated fraud in Kenya. 1. It’s sold as an INVESTMENT, yet it’s actually a policy that when you stop paying you lose everything. I personally lost 900k to the same britam after contributing 30k a month for about 3 years. 2. It’s something that requires policy and legislative intervention. IRA should insist that insurance sells only protection and CMA should insist that any insurance selling investments brings it under the CMA umbrella. 3. The premium towards protection should be forfeited but the investment piece should not be forfeited 4. Insurance companies should disclose how much income is coming from forfeited premiums.
Edwin H. Dande90,707 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
When you go to Court of Appeal, you better know what is taking you there, this lawyer ate fees… It is very rare that the applicant’s lawyer and the bench completely destroy the application without the respondents lawyer having to utter a word. The application just exploded in flames.
Edwin H. Dande94,750 просмотров • 1 год назад
Sifuna is provoking a debate so fundamental to changing Kenya… what VALUE SYSTEM do we want? If for once we can put aside the issue of tribes and rudimentary “development” debates (anyone can build a road if they have taxes) but instead focus on what are the VALUES for the Kenya we want and who best espouses those values? We’d have made a Great Leap Forward. How he can have this values message out to Mama Mboga will be the challenge.
Edwin H. Dande37,046 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
✅ zoea your new court of appeal judge. He didn’t go to try, he went to do.
Edwin H. Dande36,826 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
The argument that financial stagnation stems purely from a scarcity mindset completely breaks down when facing severe structural constraints. Even the most disciplined, economically conscious individuals remain fundamentally broke if they are severely underpaid and trapped in a hand to mouth cycle where survival costs consume their entire baseline income. An abundance mindset can only push an individual as far as their environment allows. With privileged people having an upper hand at life. Without critical economic infrastructure such as fair wages, active job creation, financial literacy and accessible professional pipelines, internal drive remains mostly a dream, frozen by a system that leaves absolutely no room for execution.
Edwin H. Dande17,208 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
Justice Limo says he has experienced “VERY MANY” instances of JurisPesa. When Judicial Service Commission Kenya (JSC) Commissioner Olwande asked Justice Robert Limo whether he had experienced cases of corruption / JurisPesa in the The Judiciary Kenya the Judge said “very many” in Kitui and Kitale. The commissioner had to cut him short as he was choma-ring. So CJ, when we complain we are not making it up, they are “very many” as confirmed by the bench itself. He came across as a very honest fellow and also Judge Ready. He deserves to ascend to the COA. Full conversation on the topic to follow…
Edwin H. Dande28,660 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
Another good one for Justice Sila on land titles: If you have bought or deal in land, watch 👇🏽this. It’s not the TITLE DEED that matters, it’s the ROOT OF TITLE that matters. 1.We have become so corrupt that the courts have concluded that we can no longer rely on what is at the lands registry to know who owns the land, we have to go to the root of title. 2.Basically, what is in the land registry is valid, only to the extent there is no dispute on the title. The moment there is a dispute, and there is more than one title, then the registry ceases to have conclusive meaning. We then have to dig into the root of that title. Basically go back in time and see where the title originated from, how it has changed hands overtime to its current claim. Anyone who bought fraudulent land in the process is screwed because they bought fraud not land, even if they did a search at the registry. It does even matter which land was registered first. is supposed to make sense. When fraud is so prevalent, and even originates from the very people supposed to protect us, such as land registry staff, then the law must evolve to protect the public. Root of title is going to protect the public from its corrupt self. Sometimes a mad man is restrained to avoid self harm. 4.And the Good Judge has explained that it does NOT replace the Torrens system, it clarifies Torrens in that when there are two tiles, its Torrens itself that begins to search for the root of title it had all along assumed to be conclusive. Hence there is no conflict between the Stanchart Manchester vs Dina Management cases.
Edwin H. Dande24,438 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
Random Jogging shots… 1. During my yesterday jog in Upperhill, which is our financial district, I came across two spots where sewer is being released into storm water drainage, which will ultimately reach Nairobi Rivers. 2. There is simply no way we are going to deal with cleaning Nairobi Rivers before we deal with Nairobi sewer system and garbage, both end up in the rivers. 3. If this is happening in the financial district, imagine informal settlement?
Edwin H. Dande14,007 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
Justice Sila, who adjudicates land issues for a living, says that “the reality of investing in land in Kenya is that it’s now a minefield”, you don’t know whether you are holding TITLE or a piece of PAPER. What do you think we should do? (I think it’s elect people of integrity, there is simply no shortcut.)
Edwin H. Dande13,118 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
Random View… Justice Lucy Njuguna is very appellate judge ready, ✅… so as Kenyans would say, zoea your new court of appeal judge. She was the most passionate about performance and performance management. She asked JSC to put in place a performance management framework to enable sanctioning of nonperformance. And she must have been a good student… she has a very quick and clear mind. Get engaged: comment, agree, disagree, commissioners are human: some will read these things to compare with their individual understanding.
Edwin H. Dande10,048 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад