Kenyan Chief Justice Maraga in Tanzania for conference…
Kenyan Chief
Justice David Maraga is in Tanzania for a four-day Commonwealth Magistrates and
Judges Association (CMJA) Conference, which is being held at the Bank of
Tanzania Conference Centre in the city.
Justice Maraga
led a team of Kenya’s Supreme Court judges to nullify President Uhuru
Kenyatta’s this year presidential victory. His introduction by Chief Justice of
Tanzania, Prof Ibrahim Juma, at the conference was greeted by thunderous cheers
from other judicial officers attending the conference.
“I must also
make special mention of Chief Justice of Kenya, Justice David Kenani Maraga,
who has made it to this conference. This is after spending over 11 hours on
September 20, 2017 to deliver landmark majority and minority decisions of the
Supreme Court of Kenya. We are deeply honoured by your presence, Mr David
Maraga,” Prof Juma said when he introduced him to other participants.
Serving as a
High Court judge before he was promoted to the Court of Appeal and lately as
Kenyan Chief Justice, Maraga had a good record and is regarded as one of the
foremost authorities on electoral law, a subject on which he has also done some
writing. It is also an area in which none of his decisions has ever been
overturned on appeal. He became Chief Justice of Kenya after the retirement of
memorable Willy Mutunga, the first Chief Justice selected by the Judicial
Service Commission, as required by the country’s new Constitution, 2010.
This year’s CMJA
conference theme “Building an Effective, Accountable and Inclusive Judiciary,”
has brought a number of judicial officers mainly Chief Justices, magistrates
and judges from Commonwealth countries to share their experience and
initiatives. The conference will close on Thursday.
Speaking during
the opening ceremony of the CMJA conference yesterday, Vice President of United
Republic of Tanzania Samia Hassan said African developing countries’ judiciary
like Tanzania’s was inadequately funded, as a result there was ineffective
performance of judicial functions.
Ms Hassan was
the guest of honor at this year’s CMJA conference taking place in Dar es
Salaam. This is the second time, the CMJA conference is being held in Africa.
“A shortage of
budget allocations or incompetence among the magistrates and judges is still a
key challenge facing the judiciary, which results in delays of cases in
developing countries like Tanzania,” she noted.
She added:
“Inadequate budget allocations in most developing countries deny the judiciary
capacity to effectively and efficiently perform professional duties.”
However, Ms
Hassan assured the judicial officers of the government’s commitment to
supporting the judiciary in Tanzania to ensure it was free from corruption. She
also assured them of government’s adherence to the rule of law.
Ms Hassan noted
that the government of Tanzania in collaboration with the judiciary of Tanzania
had embarked on the establishment and implementation of initiatives (strategic
plans) to enable the judiciary to become more effective, efficient and
accountable in the fight against corruption and case delays.
“Resolutions
that will be generated as result of this conference will help improve the
judiciary capacity in our countries,” she explained.
For his part,
Tanzanian Chief Justice, Prof Juma, said he was optimistic that a four-day CMJA
conference would give magistrates and judges an opportunity to share their
experience and initiatives on the development of judiciary capacity in their
respective countries.
“In Tanzania, the
judiciary has embarked on a strategic plan to make it more effective, efficient
and accountable,” he noted.
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