Late lawyer Willie Kimani [Photo/the-star]The late human rights lawyer Willie Kimani has been named the 2016 Jurist of the Year in recognition of his work after he paid the ultimate price while defending human rights.Kimani, who was killed mid 2016 was awarded the posthumous award for his bravery in defending the down trodden in the country, since he was a law student at the University of Nairobi.It is the work his widow Hannah Kimani, while receiving the award at a ceremony to commemorate the 2016 International Human Rights said: “I never thought it will cost his life.”“No amount of words can explain who Willy was. He was one of a kind… with this award, it shows that his work was not in vain.” She described Kimani, “as the best father my two boys would ever have.”Lawyer Willie Kimani spent his entire career investigating and exposing bad police officers and brought some of them to justice before his brutal killing two weeks ago. His clients were victims of police brutality and Kimani died alongside one of them, Mr Josephat Mwenda, and their taxi driver Joseph Muiruri.Their bodies were found on July 1 2016 in a river at Ol Donyo Sabuk, fulfilling a prophesy he made seven years ago that killer police officers would make good their threats on his life.

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