Njuri Ncheke court in a session in Nkomo Ward in Tigania West, Meru County. Studies show most Kenyans prefer to access justice outside the Judiciary. [File, Standard]
When Kenyans promulgated the Constitution in 2010, they sought to respond to several concerns, among them an accountable relationship between the government and the governed, erasing of inequalities and hierarchies in personal relationships and social structures, expansion of freedom and re-imagining and building a new community.