KENYA CABINET PAVES WAY FOR SETTING UP TRIBUNL

By PPS
December 17 2008

The Statute for the Special Tribunal will be submitted to the Parliament for enactment. The Committee is made up of President Kibaki, Prime Minister Raila Odinga and the eight ministers who represented parties to the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation. It will prepare a Bill that will pave way for the establishment of a Special Tribunal to try persons implicated in the Waki report

The committee on the National Accord will work on The Statute for the Special Tribunal that will be submitted to the National Assembly for enactment.

It shall provide for the matters recommended by the Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence (CIPEV).

The Cabinet Committee comprises of President Kibaki, Prime Minister Raila Odinga and the eight ministers who represented parties to the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation.

In an agreement for the implementation of the recommendations of the Waki report released Wednesday, the parties shall ensure that any person holding public office or any public servant charged with a criminal offence related to the 2008 post-election violence shall be suspended from duty until the matter is fully adjudicated.

The parties shall also ensure that any person convicted of a post-election violence offence is barred from holding any public office or contesting any electoral position.

On legislative agenda, they agreed to mobilise Parliamentary support for the enactment of the Freedom of Information Bill 2008 and take necessary administrative measures to fully operationalise the Witness Protection Act 2008 and the International Crime Act 2008.

They shall also initiate urgent and comprehensive reforms of the Kenya Police and the Administration Police.

The reforms will be undertaken by a panel of policing experts and will include, but not limited to, a review of all tactics, weapons and use of force.

The reforms will also include the establishment of an independent Police Service Commission to oversee both the Kenya Police and Administration police and an Independent Police Conduct Authority for both the Kenya Police and Administration Police.

There shall also be created a modern Code of Conduct for the Kenya Police and administration police and the achievement of ethnic and tribal balance in the force.

They also agreed to ensure that the Conflict and Disaster Early Warning and Response Systems as articulated in the First Medium Term Plan (2008 – 2012) are developed and implemented as a matter of priority.

COMMENTS:
Submitted by thecreature
Posted December 17, 2008 08:10 PM

I'd say this Coalition monster, however much we hate it seems to be doing more than all the governments since independence put together. The pressure must be increased because Kenya can be better. Much much better if the thuggish ways of the executive are streamlined. Kenya nchi yangu milele!