The Supreme Court has pointed out a grave inaction by Parliament on a law meant to give prisoners jailed for life a second chance in life.

At the same time, the apex court reversed a landmark declaration by the Court of Appeal that  a life sentence should be 30 years in two separate cases involving Evans Nyamari Ayako and Julius Kitsao Manyeso.

Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu and Justices Mohamed Ibrahim, Smokin Wanjala, Njoki Ndung’u and Isaac Lenaola observed that although the Supreme Court directed on 14 December 2017 that its judgment in Francis Muruatetu’s case be placed before the National Assembly and the Senate to set the parameters of what constitutes life imprisonment, MPs have been quiet while the same gathers dust.