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By Miles Olu And Joseph Chukwudebe.

Speaking to gentlemen of the press at the conference room, Lagos State Ministry of justice at a media party the Honorable Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos state Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo said that fines are not imposed to raise revenues for the state, rather he added that minor fines imposed here and there are meant to put cheeks and balances so that there would be a sane society for all and sundry to live in the entire breadth and length of Lagos State Government runs into billions of naira and he asked how much fines would the state government imposed to law breakers that would generate billions of naira that she needs to function optimally as a center of excellence. He pleasantly and pragmatically disclosed that the whole essence of imposing those minor fines here and there are forestall break down of the laws of the state.

Speaking further the Honorable Attorney General and Commissioner for justice of Lagos State Onigbanjo said that minors put in prison is completely miscarriage of justice adding that they quickly intervene in such matters where the culprit is removed and transferred to correctional at centers for rehabilitation for the good of the fellow and the entire of all mankind. He said that his office regularly holds meeting with police and security agencies so as to making sure that innocent citizen are not being molested or harassed wrongly by overzealous security operatives he added that his office would continually make provisions to handle victims of the wrong application of law.

He said that the Ministry of physical Planning and Urban Development of Lagos State Government is in charge of the cities and all that turning residential areas as markets, they too has rights to correct those issues for benefits of all and sundry within the entire space of Lagos State.

He said that as the Attorney General and Commissioner for justice that the justice sector in Lagos state would continue to experience the implementation of programs aimed at giving the good people of Lagos state grater access to justice through dynamics law reforms and adherence to the rule of law adding that they recognize  the need to ensure that law and orderliness are kept and as well as it is the administrations agenda to clamp down or criminals, land grabbers and other trouble makers to reduce crime, all forms of security treat to the bare of minimum.

Speaking further to the gentlemen of the press, the Honorable Attorney General Onigbanjo said that as he resumed in his office, that his first major assignment was to chair an Exco Sub-Committee on Road Traffic and Law and Order as the Committee critically looked into the expansion and functionality of the mobile courts in order to seek ways of reducing street trading, traffic  congestion and unethical, anti social conducts on the fund as well as environmental nuisance thereby improving the social-economic well being of the residents  of Lagos State.

Speaking against HAG onigbanjo said that they had all witnessed the activities of land grabbers badly stifled commercial activities in the state as Lagos state  special tasks force on land  grabbers popularly known as (Omo Onile Tasks force) with a mandate to adding the state of land grabbers, had continued to receive petitions and several criminal prosecution  cases against suspected land grabbers currently on going in different received as well clearly added that the operation of the foretaste court a boost when 19 alleged land grabbers were arrested on the 13^th November, 2019 in kosofe Local Government Area and that the trial is still on going at the magistrate court he said that  they presently have 35 land grabbers cases in court, where in land grabbers had been prosecuted and that they are hopefully that just three would be served  without hindrance to serve as a determent  to others land grabbers.

He said that the Office of the Public Defender (OPD)  handled 1,636 cases, 600 petitions out of which 245 had been concluded as 141 judgement had been obtained over 30 children rescued and total  compensation of N8,103,567.09 was received on behalf of clients by the OPD as he added that the Public Advisory Centre  did receive monetary claims of N3,684,666 on behalf of claimants whilist directorate of citizen’s Rights did institute in the national industrial court, where seven claimants were awarded N21,352,319 as terminal benefit from their various organisation as there was basically highlight of his office effort regrading cases to justice.

As the media parley progressed he said that the fight against domestic and sexual violence had been on for some time through their domestic and sexual violence response team which is dedicated to pursing  justice for survivors and deterring perpetrators as he added recently on the 26^th November 2019 there was a  road  walk to commit and act against domestic and sexual violence as the road walk represented a clear message that Lagos State Government under the watch of Mr. Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo Olu would not tolerate any form of domestic or sexual violence and that the symbolizes of the road walk was led by Mr Governor himself.

He said that they  are looking at propagating a dedicated set offenders register with data extracted from the Lagos Criminal Information System and the DSVRT. When the HAG/C for justice rose from the media parley, questions were fielded to him by the gentle men of the press and of a truth the Senior Advocate Of Nigeria Onigbanjo did proffer elucidations to all questions posed to him.

The media parley was compered by Deputy Director and Public Affair of Lagos State Government Mr. Kayode Oyekanmi.