The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, and the President of the Center for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS), Prof. Yemi Akinseye-George, SAN, has called on the Senate to fast track the passage of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) Amendment Bill, pending before it since 2023.
The call was predicated on the urgent need to close the gaps identified in the implementation of the ACJA, 2015.
Fagbemi, Akinseye-George alongside, justices of the Federal High Court and High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), made the call on Thursday, at a One-Day Stakeholders’ Review Meeting on the Draft ACJA Amendment Bill, held in Abuja.
