23 INMATES RELEASED

By EMMANUEL BOAZ It was a sigh of relief to 23 in mates who were released back into the community by the chief justice. This was achieved 2 weeks ago after reviewing several cases which are pending before the court. The prisoners at Shimo la Tewa had several grievances to be addressed by the chief justice among them were the corruption of magistrates. “Ten new magistrates have been deployed to the Mombasa high court to fast track cases for people in remand” chief justice Willy Mutunga said “All that you have said we shall discuss it when we discuss bail and bond, I can promise you that all those cases appeals haven’t been heard because of proceedings we are going to make sure that in the next 2 months we will finish the proceedings so that appeals can be heard.” Mutunga added. “We are committed as a judiciary to the decongestion of the prison and in cases where we find that there are persons who ought no to be in prison we shall not hesitate to recommend that they be released back into the society to go o with their lives, within the next month so other names are to be brought,” justice Maureen said. “We are calling up the files and we are reviewing each and every word and we want to assure you and the prison establishment that this is an exercise that that they are going to see results” Justice Maureen added. The chief justice had visited the Shimo la Tewa maximum prisons in the aid of reforms in the judiciary. It was in the same correctional facility centre that the chief justice was jailed between 31st July 1982 and 6th February 1983 and was an inmate of block F.