All is not well – NBA President calls for urgent reforms in justice sector

President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Afam Osigwe, has called for urgent justness reforms successful Nigeria, stressing that “all is not well”.

Osigwe spoke connected Tuesday astatine the opening of NBA Gombe Branch Law Week with the theme, ‘Strengthening Justice Through Reforms: Lawyers arsenic Agents of Change’.

He noted that the taxable resonates with the captious relation lawyers play arsenic stakeholders successful the medication of justness and emphasized the request for renewed committedness to meaningful reforms.

The NBA President acknowledged the strides made done the enactment of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015, which was designed to amended the ratio of Nigeria’s transgression justness system.

However, helium lamented that contempt these reforms, correctional centres crossed the state stay overcrowded.

According to him, “Many courts proceed to enforce stringent bail conditions that undermine entree to justice, portion instrumentality enforcement agencies person besides failed to afloat align with the tone of the reforms envisioned nether the ACJA.”

He further observed that though the ACJA provides for the usage of bondsmen to facilitate the assistance of bail, courts person mostly failed to instrumentality vantage of these provisions, creating opportunities for injustice and impunity to persist.

The NBA President expressed anticipation that participants astatine the Law Week would permission with a rene...