The Anambra State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Sylvia Ifemeje, has announced that the end-to-end full automation of the thirty-one High Courts in Anambra and the Ministry of Justice, when completed by the end of the year, would make the state the first to achieve such feat in the Nigeria justice sector.
Speaking after she received the “Amazon of the Frontline Bar” award from the Aguata branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, during the 2024 Law Week of the branch, Professor Ifemeje, who dedicated the honour to Governor Chukwuma Soludo, said that the present administration has also embarked on massive renovationS of all the Ministry of Justice Outstations in Nnewi, Awka, Onitsha, and Otuocha.
She stated that the innovative, disruptive and transformative projects going on in the state justice sector are in line with the Governor’s promise of expeditious dispensation of justice.
Other achievements of the state government in the justice sector, according to the Justice Commissioner, include solar installation in all the High Courts, Court of Appeal, Federal High Court and Court of Appeal in Anambra, as well as all four Correctional Service Centres in the state.
She recalled that the Soludo administration has equally deployed virtual hearing facilities in all the High Courts and four Correctional Service Centres in Anambra.
Earlier while welcoming participants to the event, the Chairman of Aguata Branch of the NBA, Barrister Victor Ezeonwumelu, noted that the Law Week, which has been a biennial celebration in the branch, was not held since after that of 2020 due to insecurity within and around the Old Aguata Region and commended Governor Chukwuma Soludo administration for sustained efforts towards curbing the unfortunate tide through good governance.
Noting that the Aguata Branch has since inception continued its search for a revolutionizing role for the law profession in the seemingly impracticable task of reshaping and re-routing the Nigerian nation through rich and robust in-depth lectures, Barrister Ezeonwumelu explained that the 2024 Law Week with the theme, “Interrogating the judicial responses to the application of Information Communication Technology as a panacea to electoral malpractices in Nigeria”, was yet another modest contribution to the “Nigerian Project”.
Barrister Ezeonwumelu congratulated the award recipients at the event, and charged them to continually justify the honors bestowed on them by further investment in integrity and industry in the years ahead.
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