Gombe Judiciary yields N26m from marriage registry fees, fines in 2020
Gombe state, Acting Chief Judge, Justice Muazu Pindiga on Tuesday, revealed that the state judiciary has improved in revenue generation notwithstanding the lockdown in 2020.
Pindiga made the disclosure at 2021 legal year held at the state high court complex.
He added that the revenue were collections from court fines, probate fees and marriage registry fees.
He said, “In the area of revenue generation, a total sum of twenty six million, seventy two thousand, one hundred and forty eight naira (26,072,148.00) was realized from court fines and fees, probate fees and marriage registry fees.
“This remarkable revenue generated even in the midst of covid-19 pandemic was largely due to effective and constant supervision of all revenue generating points in the judiciary.”
The jurist while appraising dispensation of court cases in the out gone year, he stressed that out of 13,663 cases filed, 11,300 were heard.
“As the third arm of government, we have strived to perform our duties in the justice delivery sector, even with the menace of covid-19 which adversely affected the function of our courts.
“it could be recalled that nationwide Gombe state judiciary inclusive had to close all courts for very long time, but even with that we have done our best in the due discharge of our duties in preceding legal year, of the number of 13,663 cases both civil and criminal cases filed in the high court, magistrate/district courts, Area courts, 11,300 pending cases were heard and determined, leaving 2,363 pending and carried forward to this year,” Pindiga said.
Meanwhile, the governor Inuwa Yahaya has given the judiciary a pat on back for instituting varying reforms for quicker dispensing of justice.
“It is remarkable that despite all those challenges, that the judiciary rose to the occasion by introducing reforms and adopting innovative ways to quicken the administration of justice. But more needs to be done in order to speed up judicial dispensation and decongest our correctional centres, Yahaya said.
