Umahi Urges Improved Access To Justice System

Minister of Works Engr. David Umahi says judicial infrastructure is crucial to the stimulation of effective and efficient justice delivery system in every democratic dispensation.

He stated this in a lecture presented at the 2024 Court of Appeal Justices Annual Conference held at the Court of Appeal Headquarters, Abuja.

The minister in a paper titled, “The Importance of Judicial Infrastructure to Adjudication” stated that improved accessibility to justice system through judicial infrastructure digitisation was an administrative imperative of government at all levels.

Umahi in a statement by his special adviser on media, Barr. Orji Uchenna Orji, pointed out that improved access roads, court rooms/judicial quarters, power supply, electronic infrastructure will reduce delays in adjudication, promote qualitative and quantitative judicial productivity and ultimately improve justice delivery system.

He said, “The availability of the needed judicial infrastructure catalyses equal and free access to justice as well as the speedy dispensation of justice. Infrastructure speaks a lot about enhancing judicial productivity, both qualitatively and quantitatively, as it makes the justice delivery system accessible, cost-effective, transparent, and accountable.”