ACJA needs stakeholders’ input – NBA

The Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) is an
important legislation that needs the inputs of all critical
stakeholders, the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)
Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), has said.

He said this while inaugurating a nine-member committee assigned
with state level tasks to build partnership and work in
collaboration with key stakeholders working in the area of
domesticating and implementing the Act in Bauchi state.

In a press statement in Abuja, Mahmoud, who was represented by
the‎ NBA 1st Vice President, Barrister Caleb Dajan, at a state
Legislative Advocacy and Sensitization Workshop on the
implementation of ACJA, 2015 in Bauchi state, encouraged the
committee to build partnership and work in collaboration with key
stakeholders working in the area of domesticating and implementing
the Act in the state.

‎Also speaking at the occasion, the Project Coordinator of the
NBA-MacArthur ACJA Project, Barrister Muritala Abdul-Rasheed said
the NBA seeks to ensure the innovations introduced in the ACJA are
uniformly and independently adopted by all states of the federation
subject to local peculiarities.

He said the project team shall hold similar workshop in eight
other states of Adamawa, Edo, Jigawa, Kano, Kogi and Ogun within
the next two months.

He called for the support and cooperation of all participants
and partners in implementing the outcome of the sensitization
workshop without any delays.

The Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) is an
important legislation that needs the inputs of all critical
stakeholders, the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)
Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), has said.

He said this while inaugurating a nine-member committee assigned
with state level tasks to build partnership and work in
collaboration with key stakeholders working in the area of
domesticating and implementing the Act in Bauchi state.

In a press statement in Abuja, Mahmoud, who was represented by
the‎ NBA 1st Vice President, Barrister Caleb Dajan, at a state
Legislative Advocacy and Sensitization Workshop on the
implementation of ACJA, 2015 in Bauchi state, encouraged the
committee to build partnership and work in collaboration with key
stakeholders working in the area of domesticating and implementing
the Act in the state.

‎Also speaking at the occasion, the Project Coordinator of the
NBA-MacArthur ACJA Project, Barrister Muritala Abdul-Rasheed said
the NBA seeks to ensure the innovations introduced in the ACJA are
uniformly and independently adopted by all states of the federation
subject to local peculiarities.

He said the project team shall hold similar workshop in eight
other states of Adamawa, Edo, Jigawa, Kano, Kogi and Ogun within
the next two months.

He called for the support and cooperation of all participants
and partners in implementing the outcome of the sensitization
workshop without any delays.