23 At our meeting I noted that it was in Nairobi that the Charter was adopted, and so a leading role in its irnpleinentation will generaliy be expected of Kenya. It was a matter of sorne concern that no state report had been received hy the Commission from Kenya. I, through the ivlinistel, repeaied invitation the Commission's Secretariat Fias been sending to States Parties to send representatives to the Sessions of the Commission. I also encouraged Kenya to ratify the Protocol to the Charter on the establishment of a Court on Human Rights. The Honourable Minister responded that Kenya had no intention of shying away from her responsibilities under the Charter. The report to the Commission from Kenya will be submitted. Indeed an inter-sectoral committee had been appointeci to deal with the issue. It started work sometime ago, but it is yet to complete its work. (ii) For the good part of the rest of the day unsuccessful attempts were made by government officiais to arrange meetings with the Heads of the Police and Prison Services and senior officiais of the Attorney-General's Department. The Attorney-General had travelled out of the country to be part of the U.N. Secretary-General's information gathering team in Algeria. The Solicitor-General and his deputy had also just returned from missions. I missed a meeting with NGOs partly while waiting in the hope that I might have appointments with the officiais I wanted to see. A taxi I hired to get me to the venue of the meeting with the NGOs, offices of the Kenya Human Rights Commission went round and round without locating it. Thus did I return home without a scheduled meeting with the press and a larger segment of the NGO community. My predicament was not helped by the limited working days I had in Kenya: one and a half.