Plans to establish a High Court in Thika received a boost after stakeholders donated building materials for the expansion of the law courts and registry.
This comes as the court expects a High Court Judge to start work by October 30 this year, according to Thika Chief Magistrate Stella Atambo.
Led by the Law Society of Kenya, Thika Chapter, and local business community, they said the kind gesture was a result of the good working relationship between the stakeholders and the court management.
They said the establishment of the High Court would bring justice closer to the people.
LSK Thika Chairperson Daniel Gachau Mwangi said it was a reprieve to lawyers as they would no longer have to travel to the High Court in Kiambu town to appeal cases.
Atambo said the high court would go a long way in decongesting the courts and ensuring faster and better service delivery to the people.
She encouraged other stakeholders to join in and assist in any way they could to help the facility ease the burden of case backlogs.
She added that the registry would be a reprieve as most of the people who have been filling cases at Kiambu and Nairobi would be doing it in Thika.
“This will also decongest Kiambu, as Thika has the largest number of magistrates in the county,” said Atambo.
She added that the High Court would ease their work as they would no longer have to transport appeal files to the High Court in Kiambu.
Thika Court serves more than 1.2 million residents of Thika, Juja, Ruiru, and Gatundu North and South Sub-counties.
By Muoki Charles
