He made the remarks yesterday at Law Day celebrations in Dar es Salaam.
The celebrations, which took place at the High Court grounds, were also attended by Chief Justice Augustino Ramadhani, members of the judiciary, Director of Public Prosecutions and ambassadors.
According to Kikwete, the judiciary was facing challenges in the course of carrying out its duties, corruption being one of them.
He said if justice would not be dispensed in courts, it would reflect negatively on the government and the people would consequently blame the government for failing them.
President Kikwete therefore called on the judiciary to be clean and ensure that justice was served during the course of carrying out their duties.
He said the government would ensure that the judiciary budget was beefed up despite the global financial crisis so as to ensure that there was no impediment hindering them from carrying out their duties.
In his remarks, Justice Ramadhani urged all
Tanzanians not to interfere with the judicial freedom and allow them to reach a fair sentence.
Elaborating, he said the judiciary should not be forced to jail a person, especially this time where Tanzanians had already been wrongly driven to believe that all suspects involved in the Bank of Tanzania (BoT)'s External Payment Arrears (EPA) account were guilty.
He said the judiciary had ensured that justice would be served in all cases filed in courts so as to enable all Tanzanians have trust in them.
He praised the fourth phase government for not interfering with the judiciary as its predecessors had sometimes done, calling on the government to pay judicial staff adequate salaries to ensure that court officials were not enticed by corruption and hence failed to be just and fair.
However, he said that some government officials were thinking that the judicial freedom was to discriminate them from government functions which they are never called and if called their presence was not identified.
Tanzanian Law Society President Fauz Twalib commended the President for appointing Chief Justice Ramadhani despite the fact that he once ruled a case against the government.
He added that such an act showed that there was freedom of the judiciary.
Meanwhile, Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, on behalf of the Attorney General, said Tanzania was facing a period of hardships where there was corruption and killings of albinos.
However, he said Tanzanians should not take matters into their own hands but have faith in the judicial system which had a long hand that would bring all criminals to justice.
SOURCE: GUARDIAN
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