Lack of magistrates defeating justice



Nation | by Francis Mureithi


An acute shortage of magistrates is to blame for a backlog of cases in courts nationwide, Chief Registrar of Judiciary Anne Amadi has said.

Ms Amadi revealed that according to the establishment, the country should have at least 1,200 magistrates to serve about 50 million Kenyans but only 500 magistrates are in service.

“We have not even met the 50 per cent mark of the magistrates we need in this country. We need more magistrates and…

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