Lagos State government said on Monday it would fully implement the recommendations reached at the recent summit on administration of justice with the view to enhancing justice delivery in the state.
Adeniji Kazeem, commissioner for justice and attorney general, speaking while receiving the report of a 10-man committee set up to review communiqué issued at the end of the summit, assured that Lagos would soon feel the positive impact of the policy implementation of the state government on justice administration.
Kazeem said the state government was determined to implement reforms that would guarantee effectiveness, efficiency and transparency in justice administration in the state.
“I am happy to receive the report within the stipulated time of three weeks. We are now at the implementation stage having submitted your report, and I believe the governor will not hesitate to see the implementation of the recommendations as fast as possible,” Kazeem said.
He also promised to extend the policies recommended to the Federal Government through the office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the National Judicial Commission (NJC) for input and successful implementation.
Chairman of the review committee, Fola Arthur-Worrey, said it was time for drastic steps to be taken to lift the judiciary out of the woods.
Arthur-Worrey, who was a former solicitor general of the state, said there was need for a lot to be done in order to improve on the administrative mechanism of the state judiciary to safeguard the system as well as reform the systemic failure.
He said though any reform process is gradual in nature, but government must be firm enough to implement the recommendations and get the system running efficiently.
“Reforming any system is an engineering process. If you don’t disrupt, you don’t reform. The judiciary is not efficient enough in mechanism, and we are not talking of the individual judges, but the entire system. So, the government must implement the recommendations fast to make the system work,” he said.
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