Bozimo, m, with others resource persons at the capacity building workshop held in Asaba
* It will speed up justice delivery, says Bozimo
By Onoriode Etatsemi
President of the Centre for Legal Studies, Abuja, Prof. Yemi Akinseye George , SAN , has rated the Delta State model of Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) 2022 as the best in the country and enjoined 35 other states and the FCT to copy the template designed by Delta State.
He hinted that Delta ACJ law 2022 incorporated everything that could not be put in the federal ACJ act .
Prof Yemi George gave the assessment in Asaba during the continuation of the capacity building workshop for stakeholders in the ACJL organized by the state attorney general and Commissioner of Justice, Mr Isaiah Bozimo.
While commending Delta State Government (DTSG) for supporting and actively promoting the passage of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law and the Administration of Civil Justice Law, he described the state’s model as the most dynamic and comprehensive.
He adduced psychological complexities narrowed on unwillingness to learn and change behaviour that people had been used to as one of the reasons the federal model of ACJL which, he joined in drafting, lagged behind the Delta State model.
Earlier on, Delta State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Isaiah Bozimo said that effective implementation of Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) and Administration of Civil Justice Law 2022 would ensure speed up justice delivery system in the state.
He said that with the series on capacity building workshop on ACJL, stakeholders were getting closer towards effective implementation of the law.
Mr. Bozimo recalled that recently, the judges were trained on the Administration of Criminal Justice Law 2022 and Administration of Civil Justice Law 2022, said that there was need to extend the capacity building workshop to other stakeholders of the law .
The Delta AG said that judges were taken through the necessary steps on the Implementation of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law and Administration of Civil Justice Law 2022.
He listed the stakeholders of the law to include the lawyers who defended the defendless in the court, the Nigerian Police Force , the Nigeria Correctional centre and the state counsel in Ministry of Justice among others.
In an interview with journalists, some participants including a Chief Magistrate in the state, Fednand Isochukwu Dike said that the seminar would enable the stakeholders have one mindset concerning the law.
They noted that the training was to sensitize them on the new law of Administration of Criminal Justice and Administration of Civil Justice, stressing that the law would regulate the justice system.
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