The Kenyan system is stack against the ordinary Kenyan. The audit report into the country’s criminal justice system reveals that the Kenyan state is essentially at war with informality. What is also shocking is a category of crimes called ‘state offences’, which account for another 10 per cent of arrests. The findings suggest that more serious cases are more likely to be withdrawn than any other outcome, while less serious offences are highly likely to result in a guilty verdict. Nuisance offences, state regulation offences and immigration offences comprise more than half of cases before the Magistrates’ courts.

Source: Standard Digital January 27, 2017 17:19 UTC