Land and Conflict Sensitive Journalism sumaries
The People are Sovereign and the Constitution is Supreme
Sunday Nation, Pg 17Wednesday, 30 Nov -0001
Suba Churchill says the new law protects us from politicians keen to subvert justice to protect personal interests. Efforts by MPs wanting the president to withdraw the country from the ICC are illegal and unconstitutional. It is
Full StoryHouse Resumes in Bid to Beat Deadlines
Sunday Nation, Pg 19Sunday, 16 Jan 2011
Parliament will cut short its break to resume its business and fast track the implementation of the constituion among other reform agenda items on its plate. At least 16 Bills must be passed to implement the constitution and other
Full StoryGroup Proposes High Court Takes over ICC Trials
Saturday NationSaturday, 15 Jan 2011
A group of legal experts has recommended that the High Court takes over the prosecutions of election violence cases from the ICC. The group comprising of lawyers from Kenya, Sudan, Rwanda and Britan sais reconciliation is more imp
Full StoryPulling Out of the ICC will Ensure Convictions and very Stiff Sentences
Daily NationSaturday, 15 Jan 2011
Kwnachetsi Makokha asserts that the ICC is a neo-colonial institution that should not be entatained in the new Kenya. The new has revamped the judicial and the police service in Kenya and this is breathtaking. The result is that t
Full StoryThe Curse of Agenda Four
Sunday Standard Pg 26Sunday, 19 Dec 2010
The TJRC and IIBRC have failed to live up to their expectations as commissions that were expected to reform the country. These two commissions have yet realized their objectives yet the other commissions have been exemplary. In fa
Full StoryIDPs Tell Off MPs over Funds Drive for Uhuru
The Standard Pg 6Monday, 20 Dec 2010
IDPs living in central province have expressed fury over plans by a section of MPs to raise money to hire lawyers for Uhuru Kenyatta. They affirmed that the MPs should first resettle them. They also regretted that none of the MPs
Full StoryBehind Closed Doors as Judicial Service Candidates Faced Panel
Daily Nation Pg 17Tuesday, 28 Dec 2010
Nominees to the JSC had different fates as they faced members of the justice and legal affairs committee. There were those who were tensed like Emily Ominde causing the intervention of Ababu to assure her that the committee only w
Full StoryLucky Four to Join New Election Team
The Star , Pg 3Monday, 20 Dec 2010
Only four members of the IIEC and IIBRC will be retained as members of the IEBC. The new commission’s first task will be to finalise the list of 80 new electoral boundaries. This rule emanates from the constitutional provisi
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