Budget cut hurts the judiciary, many citizens who need justice

A memorandum that the Judicial Service Commission submitted to the Building Bridges Initiative in August summed up the financial challenges faced by the Judiciary. In the financial year 2015/6, the Judiciary was allocated Sh14.8 billion, or 0.9 per cent of the total national budget. The following year, the allocation was Sh17.1 billion, 0.99 per cent of the budget, the highest share the Judiciary would ever receive. In the financial year 2017/18 the Judiciary’s allocation reduced to Sh14.2 billion, or 0.69 per cent of the budget. In 2018/19, the Judiciary received Sh14.5 billion, 0.43 per cent of the budget.