Enugu To Open Dispute Resolution Centres In LGAs

The Enugu State authorities has announced that it is exploring partnerships to found alternate quality solution (ADR) centres successful the 17 section authorities areas of the state.

Governor Peter said the authorities would integrate customary quality solution into the state’s justness transportation strategy and bid mediators who recognize some the instrumentality and the section traditions.

The politician disclosed this done his peculiar advisor connected Legal Matters, Barr. Osinachi Nnajieze, during the maiden ADR colloquium of the College of Arbitrators Nigeria LTD/GTE, themed “Rethinking Dispute Resolution successful a Modern Society – Going Back to Our Roots”, held successful Enugu.

He said that ADR serves arsenic a span betwixt justness and peace, instrumentality and equity, the courtroom and the assemblage and has proven to beryllium an amicable mode of settling disputes.

Mbah called connected Nigerians to clasp ADR mechanics arsenic a mode of resolving issues betwixt parties.

“In Igbo land, the Igba Nkwu (dialogue nether the thenar tree), the Izu (council of elders) and the Ndi Nze na Ozo (custodians of tradition) played captious roles successful maintaining harmony. These were not conscionable taste artefacts; they were justness systems rooted successful empathy, accountability and societal cohesion. Today.

we indispensable ask: How tin we integrate these indigenous models into our modern ineligible frameworks? How tin we empower communities to resoluteness conflicts without overburdening our courts?

“Let this colloquium not beryllium a specified intelligence exercise. Let it beryllium a movement. A question to reconstruct dignity to quality resolution. A question to marque justness a lived experience, not a distant idea. A question to physique a nine wherever conflicts are resolved not with bitterness, but with wisdom. As governor, I pledge Enugu State’s afloat enactment to this cause,” helium said.

In his speech, the president, College of Arbitrators Nigeria LTD/GTE, Patrick Ikwueto (SAN), described the assemblage arsenic a duly registered non-profit instauration whose superior nonsubjective is to beforehand and facilitate quality solution by arbitration and different alternate means of backstage quality mechanisms different than litigation successful courts.

He lauded Governor Mbah’s enactment style, which helium said was shown successful his quality to co-host the lawsuit and supply the instauration with the needed logistics to guarantee its success.

Other speakers astatine the lawsuit are the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Enugu State, Kingsley Udeh (SAN); Justice of the National Industrial Court, Owerri Division, Imo State, Justice Nelson Ogbuanya; Director of Training, College of Arbitrators, Nigeria, Dr Chikwendu Madumere and the Vice President, College of Arbitrators, Nigeria, Dr Okey Akobundu.