Kenya’s Director of Public Prosecutions, in February hosted donors present in Kenya for a round-table meeting to discuss areas of assistance and mutual collaboration to enhance prosecution services in Kenya.
Presiding over the meeting, Kenya’s Director of Public Prosecutions Mr Renson Ingonga OGW, appreciated the continued supported that his office has received over the years, including from our project and the European Union.
As a project, we have in the past worked closely with the ODPP-Kenya, most notably in the development of a Handbook on Inter-Agency Guidelines on Collaboration and Cooperation in the Investigation and Prosecution of Terrorism and Terrorism related cases. This ODPP-led initiative went on to become a pilot that other countries in the region, including Tanzania, have adopted for use by their prosecutors and investigating officers.
We have also continually supported the training of several prosecutors, both nationally and at the regional level, on issues relating to financial intelligence, illicit financial flows generated by organised crime and many more.
Mr Renson Ingonga appealed to the donors to support his office’s ambition to transform the Prosecution Training Institute in Nairobi into a regional hub and a centre of excellence for law enforcement agencies, prosecutors and other institutions in the justice sector. He also sought support to automate processes in his office.
Representing the European Union at the meeting was Ms Line Urban, the Programme Manager for Justice and Human Rights at the EU Delegation to Kenya; and Alma Wanyama, the senior technical advisor at EU’s AML CFT ESCAY Project.
