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Agbakoba: AGF Fagbemi Should Decentralise Police, Reform Criminal Justice System

Dr Olisa Agbakoba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has said that the new Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) urgently needs to decentralize the Nigerian police, as well as majorly reform the criminal justice system to better the judicial system in Nigeria.

In a statement released on Monday, Agbakoba said that the judicial system in Nigeria needs to go through certain reforms, and went on to give his opinions on the areas of the system that Fagbemi should focus on for the betterment of Nigeria.

Agbakoba’s statement read, “There are pressing tasks to be carried out urgently by the new Attorney General of the Federation. Major reforms of the criminal justice system with particular reference to the utter confusion in the duplicated work of our law enforcement agencies in particular EFCC and ICPC is urgently needed. Also, there is need to unbundle EFCC and restrict them to investigation only while a new National Prosecution Agency ought to be established.

“Another key reform would be a complete decentralized Police Force at local state and Federal levels. Major revamp of our outdated laws is urgently needed to follow the Rwanda example that modified 1000 laws. Last but not least the AGF must work on Speed of Justice. It’s a crying shame it takes upwards of 15 years to conclude cases from the High court to the Supreme Court.

“Finally, but not exhausted, is to create sector specific dispute resolution Agencies to free up the utterly cluttered dockets of the regular courts.

“The other very important task before the Attorney General will be the unnecessary and wholly inefficient matter of over centralization of our superior courts. There is no better time than now to hack down the highly centralized Court systems in Nigeria. The AGF is invited to consider major constitutional amendments to create a system of Federal and State Courts. State Courts ought to have exclusive Jurisdiction over matters related to them. This is also the case for Federal Courts whose Jurisdiction must be limited to Federal causes. This will free up the Clutter at the Supreme Court and make it the Policy Court it ought to be in the first place

“We have a Brilliant AGF in Lateef Fagbemi SAN. Am convinced this will be a simple task for him. He is a very good colleague and I have the highest confidence in his abilities”

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