Nigeria’s judicial reforms to make legal system efficient, transparent, accountable – Fagbemi 

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, AGF, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, has clarified that the ongoing reforms of the country’s judiciary are aimed astatine making justness accessible to mediocre and indigent Nigerians successful enactment with the 1999 Constitution.

He assured that, erstwhile afloat completed, the reforms volition marque the ineligible strategy much efficient, transparent, accountable, and fundamentally people-centred.

Fagbemi made the clarification connected Wednesday successful Abuja portion inaugurating the Justice Sulyman Durosinlorun Kawu-led Governing Board of the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria.

To marque the reforms much meaningful, the AGF charged the committee to travel up with strategical steps that volition trim detention installation congestion, wide tribunal dockets, and safeguard cardinal quality rights astatine aboriginal interaction points.

The curate explained that the inauguration of the committee was captious to the attainment of the contiguous administration’s precedence areas, arsenic it is 1 of the measures to execute far-reaching ineligible reforms.

“From strengthening citizens’ rights to expediting trials, our corporate resoluteness is to guarantee that the Legal Aid Council aligns straight with these priorities, deepening entree to ...