Laws on public behaviour and etiquette most Kenyans are ignorant about

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Danstan Omari has seen enough courtrooms to know that most Kenyans are walking around breaking the law without the slightest idea they are doing it.

The lawyer, who runs his practice at Danstan Omari and Associates Advocates in Westlands, Nairobi, is not talking about robbery or fraud. He is talking about spitting on the pavement. Kissing at a bus stop. Yelling across a street market. Things that feel completely ordinary but sit squarely within the reach of Kenyan law.

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