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Figure 39: Respondents’ trust of justice providers covertly involved in high profile cases and influence the decision of the court to the disadvantage of litigants without access to such connections 52 . Interestingly, even religious leaders stated that they trust traditional elders because of justice, honesty and lack of corruption and prejudice. 53 Figure 40: Respondents’ trust of justice providers (by gender) The preference across the various justice providers was expressed at approximately equal rates for both male and female respondents, suggesting that gender considerations did not influence the preference of one justice provider over the other (Fig 40). It was revealed in qualitative interviews that most members of the community avoid the formal courts because they are costly and vulnerable to corruption and miscarriage of justice 51 . Particularly, traditional elders expressed the concern that prominent persons such as members of parliament, senior police officials, some traditional elders and military personnel often get overtly, or 51 Business Group, Focus Group Discussion, Eastern Zone, 3 March 2014 The household survey reflected those sentiments, showing that out of those who had said that they trust the traditional elders the most, more than half (51%) gave their reason as fair judgments (Fig 41), again without any gender related distinctions. 52 Traditional Elders, Focus Group Discussion, Eastern Zone, 4 March 2014 53 Religious Leaders, Focus Group Discussion, Eastern Zone, 4 March 2014 27
Figure 41: Respondents’ reason of choice (by gender) Figure 42: Respondents’ level of confidence in the formal justice system In sum, it was observed that the level of confidence in the formal justice system was generally low with a cumulative 62% of the entire sampled population stating that they were either fairly confident or not confident at all (Fig 42). Additionally, 37% of respondents identified no change in the performance of formal courts which was marginally greater than those who stated that there had been an improvement at 32% (Fig 43) 28
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