Virtually all the subordinate courts have no means of transport. File covers and paper are hardly available. Judgments take even years to print and distribute due to lack of stationary. Funds for paying witnesses are not available. So trials can take even up to ten years to complete.
Remand prisoners are overcrowded in the cells and many die before their cases are determined.
By this under funding the government has clearly infringed the accuseds' right to trial within a reasonable time. Some of us share the view that this is a deliberate move by the executive and legislature to weaken the judicial wing of government. Interference by the Legislature Despite the doctrine of separation of powers, the legislature sometimes interferes with judicial independence. The most glaring example is in the case of the Attorney General V. Rev. Christopher Mtikila . In that case the High Court had ruled in favour of the respondent that it was lawful for independent candidates to contest Presidential, Parliamentary and Local councils elections.