The promise of the Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau state to develop the state Judiciary for better justice delivery has started taking effect as the state ministry of justice is expected to be ICT compliant soon.
Disclosing this in an exclusively interview with REALITY today in his office, the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Jonathan Mawiyau (Esq) said the governor has already approved the computerization of the state Ministry of Justice to also enhance the quality of lawyers in the Ministry.
The AG said, “Governor Lalong is measuring up to his promises concerning the judiciary. If you want to compete with other parts of the country and the world at large, you have to put down structures and facilities that are modern to be accommodating, especially to help with information flow, mostly through the present ICT. I believe he has taken steps as far as this Ministry is concerned.
“Recently, he has approved something for us as a Ministry to do our computerization and be linked to the world through the Internet. I think this is a big achievement! Very soon we will soon start and you will see changes!
“It is our plan that, every Lawyer that has no laptop would now have a laptop. If that is achieved, you know basically, the quality of the Lawyers would change. As, the lawyers can sit in their houses and access latest Supreme Court decisions, International Journals, among others. And this will boost the quality of the output as expected.
“It is a fact that one could come with very beautiful plans, but the major challenge as you know, tend to come from financing. And you cannot put that problem on the Governor in anyway, because, it is as resources come that he would apply them to the development of Court rooms.
“Every time the Governor talks about developing the Judiciary, you can see it in his heart and you begin to see those projects already developed. Except that, they have to be reproduced. But, this will not come from his heart but from the available resources. I believe with the dwindling revenue coming from the federation account, which has gone down significantly, he is looking into some other areas and we have considered improving on the revenue generation in the state and that is been worked out.
“The laws concerning those areas are now being looked into and reviewed. We have looked into some, what is left are those laws concerning those collecting revenues. We want them to come and sit with us to discuss, so that, there would be no clashes in the collection. By the time we finish that, and the law is in place, we will give an enabling environment that would help us enhance a good measure of increase in the revenue.”
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