Borno and Niger states have led the ranking of the fastest prosecution of criminal cases in State High Courts in the country, data sourced from...
Borno and Niger states have led the ranking of the fastest prosecution of criminal cases in State High Courts in the country, data sourced from the National Judicial Council and the National Population Commission has revealed.Niger and Gombe states followed with 182 and 256 days respectively, the report showed.
The ranking of the State High Courts was done in a survey conducted by a civic technology organisation, Citizen’s Gavel with funding support from the Open Society Initiative for West Africa. Olanipekun said the publication spoke in depth to the pace of justice delivery in Nigeria through data sourced from the NJC.“This has turned into a tool that somehow pushes Nigerians to conceding or resulting to various categories of injustice and taking laws into their hands because we lack a fast paced justice delivery system,” he said.
The team lead said: “The methodology used is to review the timeline of cases in states from available data from commencement to judgment stage and finding the average per state.
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