By Amina Abdullahi Girbo
Magistrates Judges in Bauchi state have been urged to be up and doing for not relenting on efforts of discharging their judicial functions by pretending that all is well.
The called was made by the Chairman magistrates Association of Nigeria, Bauchi state branch, Abdulmumini Adamu Esquire, during the 2023 New year celebration with the Theme Enhancing Justice Delivery and Administration in Bauchi State organized by the MAN Bauchi Branch.
Abdulmumini Adamu Esquire said the year Twenty Twenty Three is unique considering the general elections that comes with enormous challenges such as political betrayal, rivalry, thuggery, gangsterism and the proliferation of crimes which demand judicial intervention.
The MAN chairman, enjoined Magistrates in the state to exercise their discretionary powers judiciously and judicially in the overall interest of justice as against any political interests.
He reminded the judges on the public confidence in judiciary in administration of justice, therefore encouraged them to know that justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done from perspective of the common man.
Abdulmumini esquire commended the effort of Governor Bala Abdulkadir Muhammad for assented the financial autonomy bill to guarantee the independence of the judiciary in Bauchi state.
In his paper presentation on Admissibility of Electronically Generated Evidence under the Evidence Act, 2011, Honestly. Justice A. R. Muhammad stated that Nigerian courts contended and strenuously with how to treat electronically generated documents as this was essentially because of the old evidence Act that was now repealed.
He said judicial opinions over issues relating to admissibility of electronically generated evidence were sharply divided from the lowest court to the highest court in the land.
In her remarks the chairman of the occasion, the chief judge Bauchi state and Chairman Judicial Service Commission Honourable Justice Rabi Talatu Umar, represented by Justice Mu’azu A. Abubakar , commended the leadership of Magistrates’ Association of Nigeria in the state for their hardworking, commitment and dedication.
Justice Rabi Talatu Umar, promised to deal with any judge found wanting in disrupting the sanity of the judicial system in the state.
