Kenyan ‘False Lawyer’ Arrested for Practicing without Training; Wins 26 Cases

A 28-year-old man who worked as a lawyer named Brian Mwenda Njagi was arrested in Kenya for working as a legal advisor without having any school or lay trainingwho endorses him as a graduate.

The case He was baptized by the international press as ‘the false lawyer’ because the man, despite being a relatively young age and without officially having a law degree, managed to ‘practice’ as a lawyer and what is even more surprising is that he won 26 cases.

Stole another lawyer’s identity

According to the facts, the now detained Brian He posed as another lawyer, whose name is almost the same.because the name of the man whose identity was stolen is Brian Mwenda Ntwiga, only the last surname was almost changed.

It was precisely the lawyer whose identity was ‘almost’ stolen who detected that Brian was not trained as a lawyerbecause after reviewing the cases where he thought his name appeared, he realized that there was another person using practically the same one.

This action was what prompted the real lawyer to investigate who the man was who had a name similar to his, so after doing so hediscovered that he really was a person without legal academic training to be able to practice like a lawyer.

It should be noted that the ‘false lawyer’ accounted for 26 cases in total, and as mentioned above, emerged victorious from all of thesesame clients he represented in the Court of Appeal and the High Court of Kenya.

It is not known exactly how many years he served. and winning cases before the Kenyan justice system, but what is a fact is that he left ‘undefeated’, since he did not lose any, and he could have continued that way, but he was denounced.

The ‘false lawyer’ was investigated and arrested for at least two cases, since one was impersonating another lawyer that he could practice, and the other is that he agreed to the Supreme Court to defend clients without having the necessary licenses to be able to do so.

Tycoon pays bail to free ‘fake lawyer’

A Kenyan tycoon, whose information was not given, announced that will pay the bail of the ‘fake lawyer’ who was arrested for practicing without the titleas he admitted that he was amazed at what he achieved without having the necessary education, not to mention that he made the Court of Justice itself believe that he was a certified lawyer.

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