Kaduna understudies Lagos administration of justice system

The Solicitor General of Kaduna State, Mr Chris Adapar Umar has commended Lagos State Ministry of Justice for her trail blazing and pioneering efforts towards ensuring an effective and efficient administration of Justice in Nigeria.

Umar made this known at a reception held on March 24,2021 at the Secretariat, Alausa to welcome the delegation from Kaduna State Ministry of Justice, who are on a three day visit to under study the Working patterns of the State Ministry of the Justice.

Speaking during the short welcome reception, the State Solicitor General/ Permanent Secretary, Mrs Titilayo Shitta-bey who received the delegation noted that the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State, Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo SAN, on being sworn in had expressed his firm desire to ensure the decongestion and removal of as many clogs in the wheel of administration of justice right from the police stations to the correctional services in Lagos State.

Explaining further she said, in the course of pursuing this lofty goal, on January 8, 2020, an advisory committee was inaugurated by the Attorney General, which included illustrious and outstanding lawyers from the Ministry of Justice and the private bar to review activities of Police lay Prosecutors.

According to her, a major recommendation of the committee which was approved by the Attorney General led to the establishment of the District Prosecutor’s Office which is now a sub-unit of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.

Ms. Titilayo Shitta-bey made reference to the enactment of the “Pilot Scheme” of the District Prosecutors’ Office which took off in year 2020 in three (3) magisterial districts.
The positive observation and successful work done by the unit, led to the creation of District Prosecutors’ Offices in all Magisterial Districts in Lagos State.

The leader of the delegation from Kaduna State Ministry of Justice, Mr. Chris Adapar Umar
also stated that their visit would certainly make his team do better through peer reviews by studying how Lagos State runs its administration of Justice and how it has adopted strategies and countered the challenges that comes with the system.

In attendance was the Solicitor General and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Lagos State; Ms. Titilayo Shitta-bey, Director of Public Prosecutions; Mrs Adeyemi, The Solicitor General and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Kaduna State; Mr. Chris Adapar Umar, Director of Public Prosecutions, Kaduna State; Mr. Dari Bauero, Officer in Charge O/C Legal, Kaduna State; Mr. Martins Danjuma and management of the State Ministry of Justice.