Zulum Pledges Legal Reform To Deepen Justice System

Borno State governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, has reaffirmed his committedness to moving intimately with the national government, National Assembly and different partners to deepen reforms successful the authorities justness system, particularly astatine the grassroots.

Governor Zulum made the committedness yesterday astatine the 2025 Justice Sector Leadership Retreat held astatine the International Conference Centre of Musa Usman Secretariat, Maiduguri.

“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,” Zulum stated.

The politician stressed the request for the deployment of exertion which volition marque justness transportation faster, transparent and accountable to the  citizenry, noting that Borno State had already adopted the usage of integer exertion to span 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 assistance particularly successful hard-to-reach areas. If deployed strategically, exertion tin span the spread betwixt agrarian and municipality justness access.

“This is peculiarly important successful Borno State wherever we proceed to retrieve from a protracted insurgency and humanitarian crisis. Justice indispensable service arsenic a instauration for healing, rebuilding spot and restoring the societal contract”, helium remarked.

The politician emphasised the request for organization collaboration and coordinated betterment to efficaciously face the menace of terrorism, corruption, resolving onshore disputes and securing investments for a amended society.

“I impulse each of america present arsenic policymakers, jurists, administrators and stakeholders to see  coordination not arsenic a procedural matter, but arsenic a motivation imperative. Our radical merit a strategy that works, not 1 riddled with delays, duplications, oregon inefficiencies,” helium further said.

The retreat themed “Strengthening Justice Sector Service Delivery done Technology, Innovation and Co-ordinated Reform” underscores the value of deployment of integer tools to accelerated way judicial process.

The lawsuit was attended by the legislator representing Borno Central, Senator Kaka Shehu Lawan SAN; APC authorities chairman, Hon. Bello Ayuba, chairman/CEO NDLEA, Brig. Gen (rtd) Buba Marwa; Solicitor General of the Federation, Beatrice Jeddy-Agba, heads of  agencies nether Federal Ministry of Justice. Others see Secretary to the State Government, caput of Service, acting main of staff, the authorities attorney-general, members of the authorities enforcement council, and different apical authorities officials.

The lawyer wide and curate of Justice, Mr Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), successful his remarks lauded Governor Babagana Zulum’s people-centred translation and reforms successful the justness sector.

“Just similar different sectors, your interaction successful the justness assemblage has been profound. The motorboat of Borno State e-Justice task successful concern with Law Pavilion has positioned the authorities arsenic a pacesetter successful integer transformation. With tools specified arsenic the Case Management System, e-Library, and physics message tracking for ineligible processes, Borno is pioneering ratio and transparency successful judicial work delivery,” Fagbemi stated.

“Borno nether your enactment has go a lawsuit survey successful resilience and renewal. You person shown that governance is not astir slogans but astir solutions; not astir rhetoric but astir results. You person elevated the modular of enactment by demonstrating that ideas, erstwhile backed by courageousness and action, tin alteration societies, nary substance the odds.

“In a authorities that has endured immoderate of the toughest trials successful our nation’s history, you did not succumb to despair. Instead, you applied

innovative thinking, dependable judgment, and a data-driven attack to argumentation and the results are disposable to all,” helium added.

The lawyer wide called for the request to update the nation’s ineligible frameworks to enactment these innovations and put successful integer literacy, cybersecurity, and information absorption for the professionals.

“By fostering a civilization of innovation and leveraging the transformative powerfulness of technology, we tin physique a justness strategy that is much efficient, much accessible, and much equitable for each Nigerians,” helium concluded.