NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 2 – The Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji has revoked the appointment of more than 300 prosecutors he had seconded to 14 state agencies.
The revocation are contained in a gazette notice dated December 27, 2019, in which most of the those who had been affected had been attached to Labour institutions where the DPP had assigned 90 prosecutors followed by environmental management and citizenship and immigration agencies which each had 38 prosecutors.
Other public agencies affected by the recall include the National Social Securities Fund which lost 35 prosecutors, National Hospital Insurance Fund – 23, Anti-Counterfeit Agency and Kenya Bureau of Standards had 20 recalled while Sexual Offences lost 18 prosecutors.
Higher Education Loans Board has lost 13 public prosecutors who had been attached to it while Tourism and Public Health each will have to forego the services of 16 and 18 prosecutors respectively.
The de-gazettement comes as the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution is in the process of re-assessing the capacity of public prosecutors after some number of state bodies claimed they were using under-qualified lawyers to represent them in court.
