An independent public prosecutor

THE Attorney General is under fire by sections of society for a dereliction of duty.

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He is accused of letting prosecutions off the hook. Perhaps the spotlight on him would have been less harsh had these prosecutions not involved politically sensitive, and what have now come to be known, emblematic cases, which have been languishing unresolved for many years. Families of victims have had their emotions yoyo from despair to hope with successive governments promising them answers that have amounted to nothing.

The Removal of Officers (Procedure) Act, 2002, provides a regulatory framework to remove top officials like the Attorney General and Inspector General of Police, from their constitutional inheritance. The framework , dominated by parliamentary and legal oversight, provides these officers with safeguards to do their work in good faith and not risk arbitrary removal at the whim of the Executive.