The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, on Monday, directed courts to stop sitting pending the issuance of the National Judicial Council’s guidelines for the reopening of courts amid the
ravaging COVID-19 pandemic.
It will be recalled that the NJC at its first virtual meeting held on April 22 and 23 had set up a 10-man committee headed by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour to develop a practical strategy for how courts would continue to function in the COVID-19 pandemic era.
The memo also stated, “In addition, the National Centre for Disease Control had made an announcement to the effect that we are now at community transmission phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Hence, we cannot afford to put them and their families at risk by allowing a haphazard resumption of court without clear Guidelines and Protocols that will safeguard the health and wellbeing of the judges, lawyers, court staff as well as members of the public.
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