Chief Justice Martha Koome has emphasised the vital function the Alternative Justice Systems play in improving get right of entry to to justice.
Speaking on Tuesday, Koome said the Constitution recognises AJS, and publications on embracing it.
Koome become talking during the release of the first self sustaining Alternative Justice System (AJS) Centre in Africa in Nakuru.
Koome stated the initiative recognises that Kenyan communities have for generations advanced their own justice structures which have and hold to maintain societies collectively.
“What holds us collectively is our own feel of justice. The Constitution publications us to embody and understand AJS,” Koome said.
“There isn’t any doubt in my mind that AJS holds first rate promise in enhancing get entry to to justice and in refocusing this country as a humans-centred justice jurisdiction,” she stated.
The CJ stated it’s miles a recognition that mediation and reconciliation approaches, together with the ones performed within the alternative justice mechanisms, are central for the resolution disputes for the reason that they may be collaborative procedures that foster long-time period relationships
The AJS centre is an initiative of the Inter-faith Christian Forum in Nakuru in collaboration with the county authorities.
The ‘House of Reconciliation’ AJS centre is the first of its kind in the entire location.
She stated it’s far an innovation so one can be immensely useful to the groups in Nakuru County and Kenyans at huge.
According to Koome, the centre will make contributions to the advent of a simply social order.
It will also prioritise reconciliation and foster peaceful co-lifestyles in the groups crucial to empower all to realize their skills and potential.
“This novel innovation will become a beacon of properly practice and a image of the multi-door get entry to to justice,” she said.
Present at some point of the release encompass the Deputy Chief Justice of Uganda Justice Richard Buteera and Nakuru County Deputy Governor David Kones.
