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Fake Lawyer Brian Mwenda’s Story Goes International, The World Reacts
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Fake Lawyer Brian Mwenda’s Story Goes International, The World Reacts

Brian Mwenda, the young Kenyan who was exposed masquerading as a High Court of Kenya advocate, has been on many people's minds for the past week.  Kenyans took to social media to air their views after Mwenda was revealed to be a forger who impersonated another person with the same name in order to practice in Kenyan courts. Several videos of Mwenda in court, making submissions and defending his clients, have also surfaced online. Among the many stories from this saga that truly went viral was the one about Mwenda winning all 26 cases; many people took this claim to be true and viewed him as a hero. However, the Law Society of Kenya, represented by its president Eric Theuri, has refuted Mwenda's victory in the 26 cases in questi...