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SANWO-OLU PROMISES TO TRANSFORM LAGOS JUDICIAL SECTOR…Visits State High Courts, Says Govt’ll Transform Infrastructure
As part of his administration’s commitment to reform the judicial sector, the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has promised to change the face of court rooms and court premises across the state, saying judicial proceedings would no longer take place in an unconducive environment.
The Governor also promised a total transformation of court rooms, buildings and other facilities for speedy dispensation of justice, saying judicial officials, such as judges, lawyers and other workers in the judiciary would operate in an ambience suitable for the job they do.
Speaking on Saturday during an inspection to Lagos High Court, Igbosere and Ikeja High Court, GRA, Ikeja, Governor Sanwo-Olu said as his administration continues to deliver dividends of democracy to the people of Lagos State, it will ensure that the judicial arm is not left to suffer.
The Governor said the Lagos State Government would set up a joint committee between the judiciary and the executive to work toward putting in place a rebranded and renewed physical infrastructure in the judiciary in the months and years ahead.
He said: “The whole objective of the exercise (inspection to the courts) is for all us to continue our collaboration between the executive and the judiciary, understanding fully well that we are all set up to serve our citizens. And the only way we can serve is to ensure that all of us have the right ambience and have the right environment for that service to continue to happen.
“Lagos State judiciary is reputed as the foremost judicial service in the country not only with the number of judges that we have but the caliber of our judges. Beyond that is also to look at both the physical infrastructure and welfare of our judges.
“As a government we felt beyond just sitting down and talking about separation of powers, we see ourselves as partners in the same delivery of service to our citizens either in the judiciary, executive or the legislature.”
Speaking further on his administration’s commitment to judicial reform in Lagos State, Governor Sanwo-Olu said: “We need to improve on their (judges) current state and make them a lot better so that our judges can sit back and dispense off their services under an ambience that is fit for purpose.
“We have seen things by ourselves and we are setting up a joint committee between the judiciary and executive and they would start work almost immediately. But we need to work around the logistics of how all of these will happen because there will be a bit of displacement and inconveniences. So, we want to plead ahead, when both plaintiffs and complainants come around the court premises, they need to understand that we are about to scale up our physical infrastructure in most of our courts.”
We will also be seeing a rebranded, renewed physical infrastructure in the judiciary in the week, month and years ahead.”
Stressing the importance of his visits to the courts, Governor Sanwo-Olu said: “What we have done in the past three hours is to see for ourselves what is the state of physical infrastructure of our various courts and I must say that indeed, we can do better.
“Coming out of this inspection is to see how we can work collaboratively with the Lagos State judiciary service led by the Chief Judge and see how we can set up the means in which we will begin extensive renovation of some of our court rooms, the infrastructure around the court premises, both at the high and magistrate courts.”
The Governor was accompanied on the visit by his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat; Secretary to the Government of Lagos State, Mrs. Folashade Jaji; Chief Justice of Lagos State, Justice Kazeem Alogba; Head of Service, Mr.Hakeem Muri-Okunola and Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General of the State, Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), among other government and judicial officers in the State.
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We acted to save Edo State – EFCC Justifies Arrest of Edo Accountant-General, others
Sahara Weekly Reports That The arrest of Edo State’s Accountant General, Julius Anelu, and two other top officials was carried out to quickly save state in view of “huge and suspicious from the state treasured by the outgoing administration”.
An impeccable source within the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which pleaded anonymity informed that the arrests were made to save the state rather than ground the activities of the state.
The EFCC had arrested the Accountant General of Edo State, Julius Anelu, and two other top government officials over alleged financial imprieprieties.
“Out of N24.6bn paid into the government’s account, about N14bn was left within one week after the money was deposited some weeks back., meaning about N10bn has been withdrawn within five working days”
The source added that the EFCC had to quickly move in to to save the state and not to ground its activities as being peddled.
“The amounts withdrawn were huge sums. For instance, about some weeks ago, N24.6bn was paid into that account. But in less than one week, about N14bn was left in the account. To save the state, we had to quickly move in. We are not in any way doing that to ground the state activities, it is actually to save the state,” said the source.
“We have been investigating the governor of the state, Godwin Obaseki, since 2022 but this latest arrest was as a result of huge withdrawals from the state’s derivation account as the Obaseki’s administration is winding down”.
Efforts to get the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, proved abortive as calls to his line were not answered. He has yet to respond to a message sent to him on the matter.
The arrest of the officials came days after the Edo State governor-elect, Monday Okpebholo, had accused the the State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, “of last-minute borrowings and looting.”
In a statement issued on October 16, Okpebholo, called on relevant authorities including the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Police and Department of State Services to investigate the allegations.
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