Afrigather Olisa Agbakoba, the previous president of the Nigerian Bar Affiliation (NBA) has charged Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, the newly appointed Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to revive the “declined” confidence of Nigerians within the judiciary.
In a press release on his X deal with on Saturday, Agbakoba declared that the courtroom system in Nigeria wants complete overhauling to resume waning public belief.
“The brand new CJN should work very laborious to rebuild public belief within the judiciary, which, sadly, has declined. There needs to be an entire overhaul of the working mannequin of the courts,” the Senior Advocate of Nigeria mentioned.
He famous that the rapid job begging for consideration is to make sure pace within the dispensation of justice as it will deliver again the misplaced belief within the authorized system.
The maritime lawyer added that the courts want new procedures in its operations to adapt with trendy requirements.
“To take as much as 20 years for circumstances to crawl as much as the Supreme Court docket offers little confidence to anybody, not least traders.
“The present guidelines are a modified model of the English guidelines in England, just below 100 years in the past,” mentioned Agbakoba.
In response to him, reaching a brand new, trendy working mannequin just isn’t essentially by the appointment of a bench of latest judges, however by enhancing the capability and productiveness of every decide.
For Agbakoba, the one CJN who created the momentum for transformation within the judiciary was the late Dahiru Musdapher. However his tenure lasted just for six months.
Recommending the Musdapher’s report to the current CJN, Agbakoba mentioned judges have to be enabled, via transformational guidelines of process, “to work 24/7”, including that courts must not ever shut as a claimant might file an motion at midnight.
“A decide will need to have what known as case administration powers to cope with circumstances expeditiously, with the elemental goal of pace and delivering outcomes to courtroom customers,” Agbakoba defined.
“In a lot the identical means a medical physician treats sufferers with measurable outcomes, the introduction of recent instruments and guidelines of process will change the face of our courts,” he additional famous.
Kekere-Ekun was lately appointed by President Bola Tinubu upon the retirement of Justice Olukayode Ariwoola.
Her appointment has been confirmed by the Senate making her the second feminine CJN within the historical past of the nation.
