The Judiciary has been challenged to execute the community service order to have petty offenders serve community service to decongest prisons across the country.
Josephta Mukobe, the Principal Secretary, State Department of National Government, Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government has challenged the Judiciary to support the government's initiative of decongesting correctional facilities across the country through implementation of the community service order targeting petty offenders.
Speaking during her tour of the Kisii GK Main Prison, Mukobe regretted that petty offenders were congesting the prison facilities yet the Judiciary was supposed to assist the government decongest correctional facilities through efficient execution of the community service order.
In the order, offenders serve their sentences through community service in their immediate communities.
She challenged ex-convicts to observe law and order after completing their jail terms, instead of going back to crime and have them convicted from time to time.
Mukobe reminded them that prison facilities were meant to reform those found guilty of various offences by the courts.