The North Rift Theater Ambassadors (NORTA) in Uasin Gishu is implementing a project dubbed 'Justice Under the Shade' funded by European Union (EU) and UNDP through Amkeni Wakenya, a Kenyan governance facility to promote access to justice through the Alternative Justice System (AJS).
Speaking in an interview with the Kenya News Agency (KNA) in Eldoret town, Uasin Gishu County, NORTA Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Kennedy Ruto highlighted that the programme started in August 2023 and has been helpful in accelerating access to justice especially for women, who have been able to secure their rights in terms of succession of family property, as compared to before when the society had despised and marginalized women in terms of owning property.
Through this initiative which deals with matters of AJS, he added that they have been able to train over a hundred elders called Kipkap Kokwet so that they can be able to solve cases in the traditional way.
The CEO alluded that the model has assisted in creating a win-win situation besides solving several cases especially dealing with matters of succession and matrimonial property. "We have various scenarios where five women from the Ziwa area have been able to rightfully inherit land which was initially owned by their late husbands," he said.
