RASIMU YA KATIBA YA JAMUHURI YA MUUNGANO WA TANZANIA YA MWAKA 2013

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JUDICIARY SHORT OF 1,600 MAGISTRATES

16th May 2013 

Angela Kairuki, Justice and Constitutional Affairs Deputy minister The judiciary has a shortage of 1,600 primary and district court magistrates, the National Assembly was told yesterday. 

Justice and Constitutional Affairs Deputy minister Angela Kairuki said the government was aware of the problem and that is why from last year it came up with a programme to hire 300 magistrates yearly. “This trend will continue this year as well, whereas we have also planned to hire 300 magistrates and assign them to work stations across the country,” she said. 

She disclosed this when responding to a supplementary question raised by Rita Kabati (Special Seats, CCM) who wanted to know what the government will do to address the shortage of magistrates in Iringa. Responding to Victor Kilasile Mwambalaswa (Lupa) who wanted to know when the government would build primary courts in Chunya District to alleviate the shortage, Kairuki said she was aware of the problem. “In order for people to be able to access their rights accordingly, there is a need to have a primary court in every ward, not for Chunya district alone but across the country. However, the government is not in a position to build all the needed courts at once,” she said. 

She said currently there is a shortage of 751 primary courts, 62 district courts and 13 resident magistrates’ courts across the country, “The judiciary has conceived a master plan to engineer the construction of these courts,” she said. 

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

SO, LET ALL OUR PRISONS BECOME LESS CROWDED.

15th May 2013

 

John Minja, commissioner general of the Prisons wing of the Home Affairs ministry, made routine visits to prisons across the country.

By his own admission soon after, the conditions in which he found most inmates were hard to bear and therefore called for urgent attention.

He was concerned that there are currently 38,000 people crammed in prisons, when normal capacity is 29,552, saying the obvious: the situation would alarm and pain any and all true lovers of justice and humanity.

Stakeholders including human rights crusaders, the media and various other special interest groups have for decades expressed grave concern over the plethora of problems prisoners and remandees commonly face.

These range from congestion in cells often due to needlessly long delays in police investigations and determination of court cases to poor feeding, unhygienic conditions and outbreaks of diseases to which some inmates

There is also the issue of gross misbehaviour or outright criminal activities in overcrowded jails, these including cases of indulgence in illicit drugs and sex-related offences.

All these problems suggest the existence of prison system crying out for immediate rehabilitation in more senses than one or we might see inmates turning into hardcore criminals upon completion of their sentences instead of rejoining society as reformed citizens.

Criminologists say the ordeals inmates go though are one of the major reasons some ex-convicts revert to criminal activities soon after their release from prison, adding that this points to failure by the prison system to live up to expectations in performing its conduct rehabilitation duty.

Home Affairs minister Dr Emmanuel Nchimbi declared in the National Assembly last year that he would liaise with his Justice and Constitutional Affairs counterpart, with a view to finding a lasting solution to overcrowding and crime in prisons.

He saw part of the solution lying in the implementation of an ambitious plan set to involve the employment of more magistrates and so strengthening the Criminal Investigation department (CID) as to enable it to expedite the pre-trial part of the judicial process.

The minister talked of measures such as renovation and expansion of prisons so as to house more inmates as well as continuing to improve their transportation from prisons to courts and back.

We call upon the government to launch a fuller Prisons decongestion programme in response to nationwide complaints about the huge number of people languishing in hardly bearable conditions in prisons across the country.

The programme should seek to reduce the number of people awaiting trial and to generally improve the administration of criminal justice. This goal will be attained if we are consistent in the implementation of our policies, thus guaranteeing continuity of efficiency in whatever we do.

At the end of it all, and with support from other law-enforcement agencies and the larger public, the programme will have tackled the major causes of overcrowding in our prisons congestion and such consequences as swelling numbers of repeat or hardcore offenders.

We would appreciate seeing the government work harder towards enabling the Judiciary, police and other relevant state organs to prove that Tanzania is really a country where justice is both done and seen to be done.

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

YOUNG TANZANIANS DEBATE ON THE NEED OF NEW CONSTITUTION

Tanzania needs a new constitution

Sunday, 30 January 2011 10:37

Form Six students from Benjamin Mkapa Secondary School in Dar es Salaam in a debate whose motion is: Tanzania needs a new constitution. Below are their views: Proposers: Ramadhani Pango Tanzania needs a new constitution because the one we have is already outdated hence failed to tackle some touchy issues. We need the constitution that will incorporate and address everyone’s problems. There are a lot of controversial issues that need urgent attention among them being the land issue. Gwamaka Ulimboka We need a new constitution because the current one lacks political legitimacy because it was drafted and adapted without the involvement of Tanzanians. The current constitution also rests a lot of powers and immunity to our present leaders especially the president, making him untouchable even when he commits grave mistakes. We therefore, need the new constitution to shave off some of these powers and hold everyone responsible regardless of his or her title. Edina Ngowi, Form Six EGM Our nation desperately needs a new constitution to steer forward development and democracy. The new constitution will address issues such as private political candidates contesting in our national elections. The constitution will also make other important institutions like the PCCB, Nation Electoral Commission (Nec) more effective in the sense that, they will not be accountable to the president but by the parliament for instance. Opposers: Rose Tairo, Form Six There is no need for the new constitution. What we need are just some few amendments in some items. The exercise of drafting a new constitution is very costly to the nation’s already crippling economy. So, there is no need to engage ourselves in such an expensive exercise right now when we have other important issues to address like building classrooms and so on. Halima Selemani, Form Six Our problem is not the absence of a good constitution but lack of proper ethics. So, an overhaul change of the constitution is only a waste of time, money and energy if our morals are not upright. We, therefore, first of all, need to instil within ourselves a culture of respect, responsibility and hard work before we demand a new constitution. Rehema Clinus, Form Six PCM I don’t see the need for a new constitution, but I only see the need for some few amendments in some sections. The public should improvise on the current one before thinking of the new one. WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON THE MOTION?