Taraba CJ launches degitalisation of court proceedings

Published Nov. 14, 2024

By Newspointer

Justice Silas Agya, Chief Judge of Taraba on Wednesday commenced the digitisation of court proceedings.

Agya, during a court sitting at the Court One, in the state High Court Jalingo, said that all courts would eventually be degitstised after the pilot programme would be effective.

He expressed satisfaction with the application of the new technology, confirming that it had fastracted court proceedings.

Mr Abdullahi Ibrahim, Chief Executive Officer, Comprehensive Software Solutions Nigeria Ltd, the firm handling the installation of the e-court said that the digitalization of court was in line with the global best practices.

Ibrahim said that the process has limited challenges as it fastracted speedy dispensation of sound judgments.

He added that the firm was training staff of the court on technical process in the handling the technology.

” You can see it by your self how fast e-court can enable judges in speedy handling of cases.

“Court proceedings that can take up to six hours today took a one and half minutes,” Ibrahim said.

Mr Micheal Angwe, one of the counsels in the court congratulated the CJ for the installation of e-court.

Angwe said that the electronic proceedings would go along way enthronment of speedy dispensation of cases.

Newspointer reports that the court which commenced it sitting at 9 am closed at 11 am after hearing eight cases.

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