E-Filing To Reduce Delays, Boost Access To Justice – FCT Chief Judge

Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Hon. Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf, has said the instauration of an physics filing and lawsuit absorption strategy volition alteration however magistrates’ courts run successful the nation’s capital.

At a stakeholders’ reappraisal and validation gathering successful Abuja yesterday, the main justice said the caller level would chopped paperwork delays, streamline processes, and marque justness much accessible to the mean citizens.

The validation league showcased Docket Master, the caller e-filing bundle designed to grip tribunal records, transgression cases, and administrative processes. Developers gave a step-by-step demonstration, portion stakeholders were invited to critique and fine-tune the strategy earlier afloat deployment.

Baba-Yusuf, who was represented by Rev. Fr. Okolie Bede,said :“We cannot shy distant from technology. It is our committedness to leverage it for improved work delivery.

“This milestone marks a large leap guardant successful our travel towards integer transformation”.

In her goodwill message,Lucy James Abagi, main enforcement of the Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC), described the inaugural arsenic a game-changer.

Represented by PPDC programme officer,Onyeka Oduye, helium said: “We are committed to gathering a justness strategy that is fair, efficient, and accountable. Docket Master volition assistance extremity unnecessary detention by speeding up tribunal processes.”

“Before the full-scale deployment of the system, it is indispensable to taxable it to a thorough presumption and validation exercise.

“This volition alteration america to corroborate that Docket Master meets each functional requirements, aligns with tribunal processes, and efficaciously addresses the long-standing gaps that person contributed to unnecessary and prolonged custodial detention successful Nigeria.”

NBA president Mazi Afam Osigwe, represented by the association’s wide secretary, Dr. Mobolaji Ojibara, said magistrates’ courts stay the archetypal constituent of interaction for astir citizens.

“They correspond the look of justice,if we tin get the magistrates’ courts right, we tin statesman to reconstruct assurance successful our justness system.”