Independent NG
Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, the former governor of Enugu state, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani has listed the achievements of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Bola Tinubu in the judiciary system as former governor of Lagos state.
Nnamani, in a statement said it is crucial to remember that Lagos State’s diverse demographics has greatly increased the court system’s complexities.
The former Governor, in a statement said: “With debatably nearly half of all Nigerian lawyers practicing there, Lagos State boasts of the biggest judicial and legal system in the country.”
Nnamani also said that the justice committee of the transition working group, which was established and officially launched by Bola Ahmed Tinubu on January 25, 1999, made some recommendations that were advantageous to Lagos state as well as other states that followed the lead of the judicial reforms in Lagos state, such as Kwara, Rivers, and Enugu.
The committee, he maintained came to the conclusion that the administration of the justice system in Lagos State must be fair, effective, proactive, well paid, merit driven, free of corruption, technologically advanced, inexpensive, and appropriately resourced.
“They emphasized that it needed to be bound by the rule of law and steadfastly dedicated to defending human rights.
“The Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration adopted several of the recommendations provided by the judicial committee, including:
-Eliminating corruption from the legal system…