BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
The family of the late Dutch businessman Tob Cohen has written to the Public Service Commission seeking to know timelines for the hearing of a petition seeking the removal of Director of Public Prosecution Noordin Haji from office.
In a letter to the PSC, Cohen’s sister Hannah Straten through lawyer Danstan Omari wants the commission to give specific timelines so that the petition doesn’t remain unattended until Haji leaves office.
“As your office may be reasonably aware, the petition dated 5th October 2021 and received by your office on the IV day of October 2021, touches on matters of great public interest and has elicited a lot of public reaction,” states the letter.
The family said that the public is at tenterhooks to learn of its outcome and thus the urgent need to have clearly communicated timelines for its hearing and or determination by this able commission.
“We acknowledge that the law grants your office immense latitude as it does not prescribe or stipulate a timeline through which you are to make a consideration on the determination of the matter at hand,” the family says.
Hannah adds that in order to avert public anxiety and for the sake of public interest, which is currently at stake, we implore you by virtue of Article 35 of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 to inform us of the period in which you shall deliberate and/or make a determination on the matter.
“We are optimistic and we beseech this commission to indulge us with an informative response within five (5) days so as to enable us to advise our client whose instruction we act upon; and more so, in the greater interest of the public at large”, further adds.
The petition was lodged seeing to remove the DPP over failure to prosecute appellate court judge Sankale ole Kantai in connection with Cohen’s murder.
