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Services Front Page Back Page Advert Rates Subscription News Home National International Business News Abuja Reports Sports Politics Sun Girl Editorial Editorial Issues Letters Opinion Columnists Community Standard Guestbook View Guestbook Sun Chatroom   Features Apettit Arts BlockBuster CEO Magazine Celebrity Fashion City Sun Crime Watch Covert Choice CyberSun Enterprise Everyday Heroes Exquisite Property Fashion & Celebrity Fashion & Beauty Favourite File Health Magazine How I write Life Style Living Mafia Series Man in the street Man in the pulpit Managing a Law Firm Me & My God Media People Money Motoring Power Game Romance Romantic Faction Senior Citizen Showtime Smoking Guns Sun Splash Sunlight of Islam Travels Window of the world Window on widows Woman of the Sun Women in Business Women & Me Videoscope Weekend Sun Saturday Sun Sunday Sun Weekend Sports Weekend Cartoons Company Profile About Us Management Contact Us   Mediation Centre handles 75,000 cases in five years By JOSEPH AIMIENMWONA Saturday, November 6, 2004   National Index   The Citizens Mediation Centre, an arm of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice has so far disposed off 75,000 cases brought before it since 1999 when the centre was established. Among the cases adjudicated on are rents, landlord/tenant matters, debts, employer/employee disagreements as well as family fracas. Such cases, according to sources are usually based on petitions on alleged human rights violation from aggrieved persons who prefer to seek redress at the centre as opposed to the conventional courts where there are bureaucratic bottle necks as regards dispensation of justice. According to the Director, Mrs. Efunbowale Gbadebo, at least 500 cases are received on a daily basis explaining that open centres have been established at Allen Avenue, King George Street among others to decongest the astronomical increase in the number of reported cases at its Alausa secretariat headquarters. Already, international donor agencies like the Ford foundation and some others have identified areas of cooperation with centre. Mrs. Gbadebo further explained the services as voluntary because the lawyers are drawn from the Lagos State Ministry of Justice as part of the human rights posture of the Senator Bola Tinubu’s administration. She however said that the Citizens Mediation Centre was not a regular court describing its functions as alternative dispute resolution centre. She also spoke about regular plans to sensitise the people particularly aggrieved litigant to avail themselves of the establishment of the centre to seek redness rather than embarking on illegal solution to solve their problems. Gbadebo added that addingserious cases such as police brutality are also adjudicated upon in conjunction with the Office of the Public Defender, a unit of the Directorate for Citizens Rights of the Lagos State Justice Ministry.         HOME | ABOUT THE SUN | SPORTS | POLITICS | NEWS | COLUMNISTS | CONTACT US I ADVERT RATE © 2004 THE SUN PUBLISHING LTD. This service is provided on The Sun Newspapers' standard terms and conditions in accordance with our Privacy Policy. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material and other inquiries, Contact Us.

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