Anambra Assembly Passes State Multi-Door Courthouse Bill

The Anambra State House of Assembly has passed a bill for a law to organize Anambra State Multi-Door Courthouse and its connected goals.

The House passed the bill during plenary.

The Executive bill seeks to enhance access to Justice by providing alternative mechanisms to supplement litigation in the resolution of disputes through establishment of a Multi Door Courthouse.

After clause by clause considerations of the bill by the committee of the Speaker of the House, Right Honourable Uche Okafor read out the bill for passage, while the lawmakers supported it through voice vote.

Commenting on the bill, the member representing Njikoka One Constituency, Dr. Timothy Ifedioramma noted that the bill will eliminate all litigations associated with universal courts, minimize citizen frustration and delays in Justice delivery by providing legal framework for fair and efficient settlement of disputes using Multi-Door Courthouse.

Also at plenary, the House passed a resolution directing the Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Town Planning to deal directly with Ozo James Eze as a land owner and pay him twenty percent compensatory plots due to him at Nkwelle and Isiagu communities respectively and adequately compensate Ozo James Eze for his economic trees and crops that were damaged on or before two weeks from the date of adoption of the recommendations of its committee on Public Petitions on the petition brought to the House by Ozo James.