Renowned legal practitioner, Festus Keyamo on Wednesday offered some suggests that will lead to the speedy delivery of justice in Nigeria.
Speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, Mr Keyamo recommended that the provision in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) act that says “Interlocutory applications and appeals shall not shall not operate as a stay of proceedings,” should be added somewhere in the Nigerian constitution.
He said despite this provision, almost all the cases being prosecuted by the EFCC are stayed at the lower courts because the defence lawyers will argue that “the constitution guarantee the right of appeal and part of the right of appeal is the right to have your appeal heard first before your case is determine at the lower court. In many case they argue that the constitution override the EFCC act”
Mr Keyamo said the solution to this problem is to amend the constitution “and put it as a provision in the constitution ‘that there shall be no stay of proceedings in criminal trials; that criminal trials are deemed adjoined from day to day.”
He said if these provisions are in the constitution “within all these cases will be disposed of.”
