NAIROBI: After years of suffering in silence, the plight of victims of crime in Kenya has at last been addressed as envisaged in Article 50(9) of the Constitution. The President assented to the Victims Protection Act on September 14, 2014.
In the justice system, the rights of the accused and those of the victims will now be addressed equally, breaking from the conventional common law thinking that rights of the accused were paramount to the exclusion of others.