Justice Sector Facing Challenges – Minister

Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has said the justness assemblage faces galore challenges successful its bid to usher the federation towards fairness, efficiency, and spot successful the regularisation of law.

The curate disclosed this astatine the 2025 Justice Sector Leadership Retreat, which was held connected Wednesday astatine the International Conference Centre of Musa Usman Secretariat successful Maiduguri, Borno State.

He noted that the challenges see constricted fiscal resources to enactment plans, policies and programmes, inadequate capableness to code the Ever-evolving issues successful the justness sector, among others.

“While pursuing justness is simply a timeless endeavour, the methods of achieving it indispensable germinate to conscionable the demands of a rapidly changing world.

“Our citizens expect much efficient, transparent, and accessible services from the institutions that uphold the regularisation of law. They request a justness strategy that is just but besides responsive and effective,” helium said.

He said implicit the adjacent 2 days of the retreat, the conversations would spot innovation and exertion astatine the precise centre of betterment due to the fact that they are the levers by which the instauration reimagines justness transportation successful Nigeria.

“As custodians of the law, we indispensable not lone clasp this question of change, but pb it,” helium added.

He commended the Borno State politician for the interaction made successful the justness sector.

“The motorboat of the Borno State e-Justice task successful concern with LawPavilion has positioned the authorities arsenic a pacesetter successful integer transformation. With tools similar the Case Management System, e-Library, and physics message tracking for ineligible processes, Borno is pioneering ratio and transparency successful judicial work delivery.

“Your medication has besides initiated captious reforms of the State’s penal codification and laws, ensuring alignment with modern realities and amended deterrence against crime.

“By supporting the payment and capableness improvement of ineligible officers, arsenic good arsenic improving organization individuality and structures, you person strengthened the instauration of justice,” helium added.

He besides observed the internationally acclaimed Borno Model of Reintegration, which embodies restorative justice, assemblage participation, and the healing of conflict-affected victims.

“The inaugural to basal this exemplary wrong a robust ineligible model has demonstrated not lone innovation, but besides a heavy respect for quality Rights and law safeguards,” helium added.

Responding, Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, reaffirmed his committedness to moving intimately with the Federal Government, National Assembly and different partners to deepen reforms successful the authorities justness system, particularly astatine the grassroots level.

“I reaffirm Borno State’s committedness to moving with the Federal Government, the Judiciary, the National Assembly, and improvement partners to deepen reforms successful our justness system, particularly astatine the grassroots level,” helium said.

Zulum stressed that deploying exertion would marque justness transportation faster, transparent, and accountable to the citizenry, saying that Borno had adopted integer exertion to span the justness transportation gap.

“In Borno State, we are already witnessing however integer tools person enhanced lawsuit tracking, enabling virtual tribunal sittings, frankincense improving situation decongestion and streaming entree to ineligible aid, particularly successful hard-to-reach areas. If deployed strategically, exertion tin span the spread betwixt agrarian and municipality justness access,” helium remarked.