Lawyer Tasks RSG On Online Legal Platform

L-R: Managing Director, Nigerian Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT), Mrs Abimbola Alale, Minister of Communication and Technology, Mr Adebayo Shitu and the NIGCOMSAT’s General-Manager, Satellite Operations, Mr Danjuma Ndihgihdah, during the NIGCOMSAT’s facility tour by the minister in Abuja, recently.

The Rivers State
Government has been urged to create an online platform that could enable people anywhere across the globe to access.
A practising lawyer in the state, Barr Grace Amadi made the call in an interview with newsmen on Wednesday in Port Harcourt.
She said the State Government should  see the online platform as a matter of urgent attention and do justice to it.
Amadi noted that the process upon completion, will promote accountability and responsibility.
According to her, if laws like the state’s Sale of Goods Law are online, people would have easy access to it and utilise the system.
She said the platform should be created in a pattern that users of the site would be made to pay certain amount of money.
She pointed out that it would aid investors and would-be investors in the country to avail themselves with various legal protections both for their persons and investments.
The legal icon noted that the need for legislation to be upto-date and relevant could not be over emphasised, going by the global happenings in the legal system.
She also pointed out that the platform would be a revenue source for the state when users begin to download the application.
Furthermore, she said proceedings of the State House of Assembly, should also have an online system where people would download and follow-up its activities with less qualms.
According to her, online system, has a way of perfecting issues, adding  that lawmakers would then act in line with best international practices.
However, she has suggested the ICT department of the state as a parent body, to test-run the system (online platform).