The Director of the Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji has hired the services of a renowned British lawyer, Prof. Khawar Qureshi.
Haji says the Queen’s Counsel will specifically handle high-level corruption cases facing senior judicial and State officials.
The Office of the Director of Criminal Investigations (ODPP) says it settled on the London-based professor after failing to get a suitable candidate locally.
“Taking into account the transnational nature of the offences, the complexity and the special skills required to maintain the integrity of the process, the DPP has deemed it prudent, and has decided to appoint Khawar Qureshi, QC, and his assistants to be consultant and lead prosecution counsel on behalf of the ODPP,” the ODPP says.
“The DPP advertised for private legal counsel but due to the unique nature of requirements and the complexity of cases, it was not possible to find suitable candidates.”
Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu, a number of Governors, MPs, Principal Secretaries and several heads of State Corporations are among top government officials facing graft charges.
“In order to ensure transparency and independence in dealing with these cases, to build jurisprudence, to allow pragmatic interpretation of the Constitution and to avoid conflict between the ODPP and the Judiciary, we deem it prudent to engage private foreign counsel to deal with these matters,” Haji adds.
Prof Khawar is a former law lecturer at Cambridge University and King’s College London.
Son of Haji, you are the…
Son of Haji, you are the best! Special interests… stinking Kenya Judiciary hongo/hand-greasing zero, bench-marking (read per-diem and partying incognito) now brought home.
Please Mr. Haji, let Lawyer Alice Wahome and Martha Karua work with Prof. Qureshi…..i.e if the two are willing…. my humble request, Sir.
Alice Wahome the daughter of…
Alice Wahome the daughter of Babu?
I disagree with the notion…
I disagree with the notion that we should have Lawyer Wahome and Martha Karua work with QC, Mkenya ni Mkenya! Let QC and his assistants operate the way they prefer.
@XG, I stand corrected…
@XG, I stand corrected….. but we need to transfer knowledge/experience to our own. I only mentioned these two because they are the only ones I know that might have wananchi’s interest at heart….I might be wrong…. I was thinking GITHONGO too……. Capacity building is made of such…. me thinks.
And it’s because 9/10 …
And it’s because 9/10 “lawyers” in Kenya cheated on their Bar Exams. Shame!!!
There is no problem with…
There is no problem with Kenyan lawyers’ intellectual capability; the problem is; 1. corruption, hence, cases are compromised. 2. Outdated, ineffective and inefficient judicial system that is equivocal to a Russian Roulette. 3. Inadequate judges. 4. Transfer of judges every 2 years or so, leaving cases hanging, hence, the new judge may be forced to start everything from a fresh. 3. Backlog of cases, worst cities Eldoret and Mombasa.
Colonization at its best…
Colonization at its best. This is self loathe. The people who colonized us, stole our land, corrupted the cases of our fore fathers,hanged them without giving them a chance to present their cases, forced us to follow their God, made us slaves are the same ones we are following after 50 years of independence. Why do our people go to school? This is 100% prove that for 50 years our government has prescribed the wrong language to our people. Of all the Kenyan lawyers educated through that system we cannot find one that is capable of interpreting the law and handling these cases. Kenyans have spent millions educating those lawyers and now those lawyers are useless and cannot help Kenya in times of need. We prefer a lawyer who knows nothing about our people and country to come and decide cases in Kenya. Kenyans will pay not only for higher legal fees but transport, accommodation and some drama. What is the background of this lawyer? Kenyans need explanations of all this to justify the uselessness of legal education in Kenya. God give Kenya leaders not politicians. God help Kenya!!!
aaaah, what do we call the…
aaaah, what do we call the tendency to repeat the same thing over and over again even when it doesn’t work? Where we can import brains and experience that we don’t have, we do…. I wish we could replace that whole judiciary and lawyers with imports, they STINK!
….sad though, we can’t import voters, I wish.
@Imara unasemaje kumhusu…
@Imara unasemaje kumhusu huyu ndugu mwisilamu? Unafikiri ataenda mbali?
Way to go Haji…..at his…
Way to go Haji…..at his best.
Hope they will spare your life to make Kenya at-least a minimal if not a NO corruption zone
Good lucky and tighten your security henceforth.
Aslong as wr fighting…
Aslong as wr fighting corruption to jail the biggest mightiest thuggish conmen like kidero,nys thieves,kamlesh,Kenya power thieves, n others i don’t care who is hiring coz we had to nail this thuggish idiots n send them to kamiti ir they should b sprayed by bullets n their children too.And once they r found guilty their houses,plots should b sold off n the cash goes back to the gavament.Pple should b eating their sweat .
So each time we encounter…
So each time we encounter problems we don’t trust ourselves to solve even though wehave seemingly capable people will run to mzungu, because we trust him.When are we going to be independent.I bet most kenyans would chose a mzungu over mwafrican with similar qualifications.
The other day I read that Gormahia soccer team has hired some foreigner to teach them soccer.Really!How about those national stars of yesteryear?Cannt they couch? In athletics we beat the whole globe with our own trainers and couches, save for very few foreigners. Mary Keitany is couched by her kenyan husband. She is the best female marathon runner.Eliud kipchoge the best male marathon ever couched by kenyan couch.I dont see why we cannt replicate this success in other areas.Failure to do so is an acknowledment of”inferiority”.
Kenyans have been going to institutions of higher learning before independance.By now iwould think that we have cultivated enough ofour own technocrats,scientists, academicians,writers,historians you name it ,to even export some.When are we going to be truly independent.
Let have our own lawyers adjudicate this cases .How else are we going to gause their ability?
What most Kenyan judges know…
What most Kenyan judges know most is Cheat in BAR exams, meet in BAR to Drink, Accept bribes in BAR, and BAR the flow of justice.
@Maxiley, these Kenyan…
@Maxiley, these Kenyan educated have failed to prove themselves, over and over and over…. What would you do if you were in Haji’s position and want to make a change. You know one thing that is so true and I know twill get under the skin of many back Jamhuri…..yule mtu ametempea, AKASOMA NA AKAISHI (not benchmarking or tourist visit) nje in western world, hata afanye cna au awe homeless in those countries, their reasoning, their perspective, their aspirations are way way different than those who haven’t, those bench-markers and visitors.
Again, Haji has brought bench-marking home (saved tax-payers money a notch) where those critical legal minds will see how things are done, without favour or prejudice. And that is why I say, get local lawyers to work under this guy so that they can learn a thing or two.
Accepting that someone, mzungu au muindi (i guess QC ni naturalized) and learning from them, and they are willing to teach you, is not inferiority complex….. C’mon guys, you know better where these dancing chairs with our Kenyan Judiciary has driven and left us to this point!
@Maxiley, nawewe uko inferior, unafanya nini nchi ya wenyewe :))?
@ just me,mimi I offered my…
@ just me,mimi I offered my services for free to Kenyans,but they preferred to remaing”unchanging”.So I am where my services are appreciated.
One good thing about America it’s made of people from nchi mbali mbali.Its a melting pot,and iam already in the pot.That why Iam here.
Ndugu @Njai, mimi…
Ndugu @Njai, mimi sikubaliani na huyu Ndugu mwislamu kuomba msaada wa kisheria nje ya nchi ya Kenya.
Je, huu ni ungwana baada ya miaka 55 tangu Kenya ipate uhuru na hatuwezi kuyatatua matatizo yetu ya kisheria nchini?
Sijaona hata siku moja nchi ya Marekani ikiomba msaada wa aina yoyote kutoka nje! Wanatumia zawadi (akili) waliyopewa na MWUMBAJI kupambana na maisha yao ya kila siku.
Juzi, kiongozi wa Marekani alimkataza mwandishi wa habari asifike kwenye ikulu wakati wa maswali na majibu. Mara moja mahakma ya 9 ilimwambia (Ndugu Trump) hawezi kufanya hivyo. Mwandishi huyu shupavu (hodari) alirudishwa mara moja kwenye Ikulu ya Marekani alikoendelea kufanya kazi yake ya uandishi wa habari!
Je, kama mkristo Uhuru angemkataza mwandishi wa habari kuuliza maswali, ingekuwa mwisho. Mahakma ya Kenya inamwogopa mkristo Uhuru.
Maafisa wa Serikali haswa…
Maafisa wa Serikali haswa viongozi was “Maendeleo” wakiugua wanakimbilia ngambo kupata matibabu.Hii no wazi wazi kumaanisha ya kwamba baada ya miaka zaidi ya hamsini na tano, Nchi tukufu haina madaktari wala vituo vya afya yaani hata madaktari wanao fuzu kutoka viuo vikuu hawafai hata kidogo kuwatibu maafisa.Mimi nitawaunga mikono maafisa ambao wanajaribu vyovyote wawezavyo kupigana na ufisadi.
Much as I detest this I…
Much as I detest this I think this is the right move by Haji after lots of disappointments. Our wakristo na waisilamu have been compromised and can’t see straight. We need others to show them the way ( utumiaji wa akili) if we have to get to the next level which is fighting this utapeli-lism
Haji and your banana…
Haji and your banana republic! It took you that long to realize the truth? – Philomena Mwilu (deputy chief justice), Kidero, Ojaamong, the Waigurus, the Cabinet secretaries and all our mps and other political leaders are “above the law” It has been that way since independence!-a simple game-“You pay to play!). Our country is rotten to the core when you come to corruption. Engineers,Lawyers, Constructors, Doctors, Judges, Brokers, Civil servants, and even the Clergy are all rotten with corruption. What a same for our republic, having to go out and hire an outsider to come clean up our mess? What have we done to ourselves within a short period of 55 years? And the shocking fact here is to realize that this hired gun will do nothing to change or alter our present predicament. In reality, there is no foreign solution to our domestic problems- and we should have known that; after almost seven years of ICC trying to get a solution to our post election violence; to this day, not a single criminal political instigator is imprison for all the sufferings and loss of life that our people went through. Wanachi, wake up! its your country, your money!
With this reasoning,Mwororo,…
With this reasoning,Mwororo, you become part of the problem…. YOU WANT US TO REMAIN IN THE SAME SAME FAMILIAR….you are hitting the one person who seems to be trying something different on the “class” of people that have terrorized your beloved country. MADNESS is doing the same thing over and over.
But I hear you, on Wananchi call….I agree… It hurts to know we cannot bring ‘voters’ from out there….we have to do it ourselves…….but as we wait, let Haji ‘try’ to deal with these thieves, vote-buying, corrupt, tribe-mongers who confuse and hit-us-against-each-other……….
Haji get 50 judges from…
Haji get 50 judges from outside Kenya to deal with those untouchable big thugs. Kenya judges will not jail them. They belong to the same club with the big thugs
Kenya umesema…..kwa…
Kenya umesema…..kwa machache…Yes!
Mtindo utakua huo huo…..Cuban Docs, I hope you will not disappoint. Why cry ‘freedom’ ‘freedom’ and have no use for it? Kutoka kwa mbeberu right into the diary (deri mgakamwo)of the Kenyan elite/mhesimiwas? Is that freedom or freedoom?
Call it Neocolonialism. It…
Call it Neocolonialism. It doesn’t matter, if that will make things done right.
Most definitely there many qualified and more experienced lawyers here in Kenya, but the son of Haji says that they would have wished to hire locally and that wasn’t possible.
Two likely possibilities;
1. The most suited criminal lawyers, have at some point represented the same culprits in other cases. Most high profile individuals hire the best.
2. A local lawyer is 100 times more likely to be compromised, so as to slow or block justice.
Kutokana na maoni ya Wakenya…
Kutokana na maoni ya Wakenya wazalendo wanaoandika hapa, nina matumaini makubwa ya kwamba, mnamo 2022 baada ya awamu ya pili ya mkristo Uhuru na ndugu yake kuondoka kazini, Kenya itafufuka tena.
Ni lazima tuhakikishe ya kwamba mkristo Wafula Chebukati hasimamii IEBC 2022. Isitoshe, wakristo na waislamu wafuatao wasiruhusiwe kugombea uongozi wa nchi ya Kenya.
1. mkristo Raila
2. mkristo Ruto
3. mkristo Gideon Arap Toroitich
4. mkristo Uhuru
5. mkristo Arengo
6. mkristo Sonko
7. mwislamu Joho
8. mkristo Mudavadi
9. mkrito Wetangula
10 mkristo Kalonzo
11 mwislamu Dida
Imara, my dear, you are…
Imara, my dear, you are trending on very dangerous ground. Some facts are better observed quietly….or hushly ‘spoken’ about than written down…..on public fora…etc. …read between the line….don’t take us there.
Those of you advocating for…
Those of you advocating for local solutions possibly have not experienced the frustration of seeking recourse when pursuing justice and/or essential service from the public sector. In Kenya courts, judges, prosecutors and most court employees are compromised. When you see Kidero and Waiguru laughing off any indictment, they know many in the halls of justice are in their payroll. To bring down the behemoth of corruption that plagues Kenya, courts outside the country will have to be involved. We put ourselves in this mess and there’s no internal goodwill to get us out of it.
@ Nani, Iam our of those…
@ Nani, Iam our of those adcocating for local solutions as indicated in my post. See once the foreigners we hire have adjudicated the cases,past judgement,and left, we will go back to our local judges,right. So why not ” perfect our locals” since they are home grown. Are we not so capable of cleaning what ever needs to be cleaned so that the right judges acan rule on our cases?
To quote professor lumumba,” sanitize” our judges.Why do we have them if we cannot use them.Some have spent millions of public money,we cannot let that go to waste.
@Maxiley, Professor Lumumba…
@Maxiley, Professor Lumumba’s record at EACC is quite dismal and I no longer listen to his so called eloquent use of the queen’s English. Short of a benevolent dictator Rwanda or Singapore style , no one in Kenya has any goodwill of ridding that country of the rot. Outside courts and personnel are giving us hope by rattling the cage a bit. It will take a while but with time some of the likes of Ruto, Kidero, Waiguru, Obado etc will pay. I even advocate the looters to be tried outside the country where there’s no possibility of bribing court personnel.
Sasa ndugu @imara umekuwa…
Sasa ndugu @imara umekuwa mtu wa keregerega asiyekuwa na msimamo. Juzi ulitutangazia ati wewe ni Kama dege (bird) ambaye hajui mipaka na anayeweza kufanya kazi mahali popote. Imekuwaje Sasa hutaki wakristo kutoka nchi zingine kuja kutusaidia kupigana na hawa matapeli na majambazi? Omba msamaha tafadhali.
@Maxily, the fact that local…
@Maxily, the fact that local judges need sanitization is prove enough that they cannot be relied on to precide over these cases. Wengi wao wanafaa kuwa Kamiti.
@ Njai,why do we have them…
@ Njai,why do we have them?Its like going to south America to recruit soccer players for us.Why not make good what we have,are they so incorrigible?
@Justme: Ningependa…
@Justme: Ningependa kukukumbusha ya kwamba hayati Wangari Mathaai alisema “wakristo” wanachangia kuharibu mazingira (environment) wanaposema ya kwamba maisha yao hapa duniani ni mafupi sana kwa sababu wanatazamia kwenda kuishi “mbinguni” milele na milele pamoja na mungu wao watakapokufa. Wangari alisema ndio sababu hawajali kutunza na kuilinda ardhi wanapokaa. Wangari hakuogopa kutoa maoni yake kuhusu fikira hii mbovu ya wakristo kusema “hapa si nyumbani kwetu.” Hebu tazama, uhalifu wote unaoendelea katika nchi ya Kenya unatokana na viongozi wote wa Kenya wa dini hizi mbili ambao wameacha mila zetu za Kiafrika ambazo hazikuwa na uhalifu kama wa dini hizi mbili.
Pia, ningependa kukukumbusha ya kwamba waliowauza Wafrika katika nchi za kigeni ni watu walio na imani ya kikiristo na pia kiislamu. Mwishowe, sijui umri wako kwa hiyo pengine umesahau ya kwamba waliopigania uhuru katika nchi ya Kenya hawakuwa wakristo! Siku za kupigania uhuru wa Kenya Wakenya wengi waliojiunga kufanya kazi pamoja na wakristo Waingereza walikuwa wakristo.
@Njai:
Je, umesahau wakati…
@Njai:
Je, umesahau wakati waziri wa mambo ya kigeni Robert Ouko alipouawa, mkristo Mzee Toroitich aliwaomba majasusi wa Scotland Yard kuja Kenya kuchunguza kisa hicho?
@Njai: Ningependa kukuuliza swali moja tu muhimu:
TUTAZIDI KUTAFUTA MSAADA KUTOKA NJE MPAKA LINI?
Ni kweli mimi ni ndege na popote nilipo ni nyumbani kwangu. Lakini, mizizi yangu iko mahali nilipozaliwa. Hapa ndipo damu ya mama yangu ilimwagika wakati nchi ya Kenya ilipokuwa ikipigania uhuru kutoka kwa Waingereza. Kwa hiyo, ingawa nakaa mbali na Kenya, ni lazima nihakikishe ya kwamba nchi yangu ya asili inaendelea mbele vizuri bila ufisadi, ujambazi, utapeli, na mambo mengine maovu yanayotokana na sisi kuiga tabia mbovu kutokana na wakristo na waislamu waliokuja Kenya bila kualikwa na kufanya maovu tunayoyaona yakiendelea sasa!
Pia, ningependa ujue ya kwamba ninapoona jambo ambalo lafaa kurekebishwa popote nilipo, mimi sinyamazi. Ninafuata wazo ambalo Tutu wa Cape Town, south Africa alilosema miaka michache iliyopita kwamba:
” If you are silent in situations of injustice, you have taken the side of the oppressor.”
Nakumbuka siku moja nilipokuwa Johannesburg, South Africa, niliona jambo baya likifanyika huko. Mimi sikunyamaza, nilichukua msimamo mara moja mpaka jambo hilo lilipokomeshwa mara moja. Popote “ndege” yupo wakati huo ni mahali hapo ni nyumbani. Lakini ndege hajasahau mahali alipozaliwa!
Kwa kumalizia @Njai, ningependa ujue ya kwamba Wakenya wana uwezo wa kutatua matatizo yao bila kutazamatazama nje kwa mambo ambayo sisi wenyewe tunaweza kujifanyia.
Je, wajua, kama serikali ya Kenya ikiamua mara moja ya kwamba hakuna hata mwananchi mmoja atakayetoka nje ya nchi ili apate matibabu, hospitali za Kenya zitaboreshwa mara moja!
@Maxily, they are rotten…
@Maxily, they are rotten beyond use☹️
Ndugu @ Imara bila shaka…
Ndugu @ Imara bila shaka umewahi kusikia msemo wa kingereza usemao “desperate satuitions call for desperate meassures”. Ndugu Imara, jinsi Kenya ilivyo sasa ni lazima kukubali msaada wowote hata Kama ni kutoka kwa shetani.
This is a case of “fool me…
This is a case of “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”. The new sheriff in town knows the rot in the cases he is dealing with and he knows too that a new broom sweeps clean. Most of our legal experts are over-socialized and overconfident, lacking in commitment and consistency. Our faulty intuition and mental short-cuts has led to their professional ineptitude. They whitewash every wheel and dealing, leaving the justice system vulnerable to the core.
For lack of a better scenario, if a house was on fire, who would mind who is putting out the fire? even muddy or dirty water would put out the fire regardless!
Whatever it legally takes to slay the dragon of corruption, so be it. QC Qureshi karibu sana hapa kuna matata utatue.
Possible solution to this…
Possible solution to this issue is going back to our African way. A jury system where we had a panel of elders listening and deciding the cases . This will require translating cases to local languages so all can participate and making the hearing public so the cases are not decided by individuals. As long as we are following the system that was left behind by Mzungu and continued by our local masters that replaced the Mzungu we are bound to fail big time. No wonder when things go wrong we go to the colonizer for help even though we know historically that the same colonizers used the same law to steal our land, resources, maime and kill our fore fathers and our loved ones. No wonder the colonizers always come to participate in our affairs because they are ahead of the game. They plant the seed and know where we will fall and as soon as we fall, we look for them to save us. While saving us they plant a new seed and the vicious cycle continues. We keep begging for money and they give us conditions that they need to monitor that money and give us advise. So the cycle continues. We are currently dealing with 47 governor’s in a country the size of Texas. How did we get there?. Yester years we had Kibaki with a full cabinet and Raila a full cabinet. We cannot move forward with the colonizers as advisers and us being beggars. It’s time for Wananchi’s to decide their path. Get away from those foreign loans. It’s better to take one slow and sure step than ten steps and fall back fifteen . No wonder the colonizers are always in our country doing research studies to to keep us in check. We have more than 1000 NGO’s in Kenya. Doing what? How can we move forward if we have involved the colonizers in every aspect of our lives to make decisions. Our constitution, our language’s, our names, our God, our health, our food, clothing , finances, infrastructure, education (we keep changing our education system from this to that because we have nothing to call our own) It’s only Kenyans of good will and those who love our country who can stop this madness and give our country a new path. It is not going to be easy, but it can be done and it will be done because there is no other way. The leaders we have had since independence
are compromised and can never take Kenya anywhere. Kenyans with money love your country
and invest in your people, in your cultures. Do not lie to yourselves that you will invest happily outside your country. Black man is hated around the world by every other race. Black man needs to invest in his names, language,culture and his God. Black man need to seriously invest in himself. Those who tell you to invest outside your country are the same ones who carried your forefathers as slaves and enslaved others in your own country. Invest in your own people. Before investing outside of your country, find out the black man’s position in that country. Know they station. God give Kenya leaders not politicians! God help Kenya!!!