From the streets to the courtroom: Former activist now human rights lawyer

Ten years ago, Joshua Odhiambo Nyamori led a successful one-week protest which saw the grabbed famous Taifa Park in Kisumu reverted to the public. Together with his peers, they mobilised residents to boycott products of companies alleged to have been behind grabbing of the park sitting on a one-acre parcel on Mosque Road.

This was after the investor brought down all the trees in the park and began to fence it off in preparation for construction of a shopping mall. Attempts to sue alleged grabbers failed after all lawyers declined to represent the protestes following claims that some influential politicians were behind the grabbing.