High staff turnover hits AG's office

The Attorney General's Office (AG's Office) has been hit hard by a high staff turnover, with the absence of substantive head not helping the situation.

This, it is feared, will further stall the already delayed realignment of laws to the new Constitution.

The worst affected of the four AG departments has been the legal drafting sections, which is now left with eight legal drafters out of the required 20.

Equally dire is the situation in the other sections namely legal advisory and civil division.

The office has been forced to rely on less experienced law officers so that there is no gridlock in the system.

This explains why the judiciary has in the past expressed reservations at AG's Office for seconding junior law officers to appear in the Supreme and Constitutional Courts.

The recruitment freeze has however inhibited the AG's Office from filling up the vacant posts.