A Senate committee wants the House to pass a resolution to push the National Assembly to consider the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission report to pave the way for its implementation. During the address, the head of state also apologised to the victims of human rights abuses as detailed in the TJRC report. The committee report follows a petition to the Senate by two citizens—Bernard Waheire and Jacqueline Mutere—on implementation of the TJRC report. In the Senate report, the panel recommends that the motion push the county governments to establish gender-based violence recovery and rehabilitation centres. The commission’s mandate to investigate human rights violations extended beyond that period to include ethnic violence, economic crimes, community marginalisation, and other human rights violations committed in the country since 1963.

Source: The Star September 16, 2020 02:02 UTC