Do you know where to get hard or electronic copies of corruption cases in Nigeria for free?
If your answer is yes then thumbs up to you. But, if not, don’t worry, but read here the step-by-step details of where and how to get the free copies.
I am quite such that, like me, you may have invested valuable time, resources and energy in obtaining a certified true copy of a case or cases in which you were involved or in which you were interested.
But today, the CLEEN Foundation, a non-governmental organization supported by the MacArthur Foundation, is making it happen online or offline.
It comes with the association of Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja Lagos-Nigeria Branch with Dele Oloke as President.
Speaking on Friday, February 7, 2020, during the official launch of the Lagos State Corruption Sentencing Accommodation Center at the NBA secretariat (The Bar) in Ikeja, Benson Olugbuo, PhD, CEO of the foundation, said that the project aims to promote accountability and transparency in the administration of the criminal justice system in Nigeria.
Olugbuo explained that the end result of the entire project is to promote judicial transparency in the prosecution of anti-corruption cases and ultimately improve accountability in the criminal justice system.
Represented by Blessing Abiri, the foundation’s program manager, the ED named legal professionals, law enforcement agencies, judges, lawyers, prosecutors, defendants, civil society organizations, government agencies, academics, and researchers as those who will benefit directly from the project.
Actually, it mainly seeks to monitor the cases related to the ACJA 2015 system through a web platform: uwazi, which is functional, accessible and available to the public through: www.cleen.uwazi.io.
It is in this context that the nba has been selected to serve as a partner a will house the resource center in Lagos, which will serve as a repository for hard copies of court decisions in cases related to corruption or financial crime cases related to the administration of criminal justice for easy access and use by legal professionals and our state partners, he said.
The CLEEN chief further explained that the Lagos State Task Force meeting has now been realigned to hold a Bimonthly and all are expected to engage with the center in advancing their work in the justice system.
Oloke, Ikeja’s NBA president, was very enthusiastic about the project and vowed to encourage the more than 7,000 lawyers in Lagos to participate in it.