The Judiciary is working with the police to set up an armoury at the Makadara Law Courts to ensure armed security officers not based at the courts surrender their firearms before entering.
This is among the preliminary safety measures to ensure the maximum security of the judiciary staff and service seekers before the court is reopened next Monday.
The court was temporarily closed last Thursday after Principal Magistrate Monica Kivuti was shot several times while in her seat inside her makeshift courtroom. She died two days later at the Nairobi Hospital intensive care unit, where she had been taken for specialised care.
accompanied by the Judiciary Police Unit (JPU) commander Samwel Ndung’u and Chief Inspector Japheth Ochoro, the officer commanding police at the Makadara Law Courts, to assess the security situation.
Mokaya said they agreed on some short-term and long-term measures to make the facility secure and usable again.
