Criminal Procedure Code
86. Powers of public prosecutors
86. Powers of public prosecutors
A public prosecutor may appear and plead without any written authority before any court in which any case of which he has charge is under trial or appeal; and if a private person instructs an advocate to prosecute in any such case the public prosecutor may conduct the prosecution, and the advocate so instructed shall act therein under his directions.[Act No. 28 of 1961, Sch., Act No. 13 of 1982, 1st Sch., Act No. 5 of 2003.]Source: Kenya Law