Interior CS Kithure Kindiki has directed the resumption of Regulated family visits in Naivasha Maximum Prison and all Correctional Facilities Countrywide.
The visits were stopped in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The government imposed a ban on all prison visits after the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in Kenya on March 13, 2020
The ban was initially meant to last for 30 days but was however extended and never lifted to date.
Speaking at the Naivasha Maximum Prison, Kindiki said he saw no need fo the ban to remain in place yet Covid 19 was no longer a threat.
“Today we are going to resume the family reunion and family visitation meetings and events. And we're going to resume on all our facilities including all the other maximum security prisons,” Kindiki said.
“When I look at you today, I can see all of you are well. Looking at the ban that was imposed earlier, I dont see the need and why we shouldn't involve you in prison visits by your families.”
The CS noted that prisons should have at least one day when their families can visit them.
However, he noted that more communication will be made on the matter.
In the initial ban, no visits were allowed in the 107 facilities among them prison lines, borstal institutions, and youth corrective training institutions, better known as approved schools
More to follow...