But I don't think she is really seized about the issues at the bottom up - the magistrate courts - need a lot of more investment - there should be at least a court every constituency - and a prison too.
I am sure if the judiciary talk nicely to MPs - CDF - can be used to finance the setting up of such courts - and small prisons - for small offenses. With 300 such lower courts - and 47 at the county level - high courts - and then 8 court of appeals - at former provincial HQ - and supreme court in Nairobi - the administration of justice will timely.
There is really no need for the majority of cases to take months - while the poor are in remand or are forced to plead guilty then endure long remand "jail"
But Koome first understands what are bottom-up cases...they are not high-level graft - but drunk and disorderly, selling alcohol without a license, larceny, traffic offenses.... they affect the poor and keep most of them perpetually poor...because like a big disease...these court cases mean they have to sell their cow (or even land) to solve them.
These cases should be heard and determined almost within 2 weeks - and any prison sentence should be served within the community or within walking distance from their homes. Heck, the majority can be heard in a single day - call all witnesses in the morning - and deliver judgment in the afternoon kind of thing - otherwise, right now the majority of the poor are either pleading GUILTY or have to endure long remand term - heck courts should waive bail for most of these bottom up offence.
https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2021-06-24-cj-koome-roots-for-bottom-up-approach-in-justice-delivery/
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