Acting Chief Administrator for the Judiciary, Adejiso Mwansa, has disclosed that the sector has made steady progress on its programmes of decentralisation.
Mr. Mwansa told ZANIS in a telephone interview yesterday that in the past one year, the judiciary has constructed 110 local courts countrywide.
He said Zambia still has a challenge in terms of decentralising the judiciary because some places still do not have infrastructure for court operations.
He said these areas use trees for shelter to dispense law and justice.
Mr. Mwansa said the judiciary was however committed to ensuring that people in all parts of the country receive equal access to courts facilities in order for justice and order to prevail.
He said shelter in itself, plays an important role in motivating workers and the public who are the users of the facility.
He explained that this year, the judiciary had planned to build at least four local courts in each province to facilitate for its efficient delivery of its services to the local people.
Commenting on the plans to rehabilitate and refurnish the Lusaka Boma courts, Mr. Mwansa said the judiciary was for now committing itself to provide shelter in areas that have little or nothing to rely on in terms of infrastructure.
He said the Judiciary, like any other institution, has financial challenges hence it will not continue putting money into the same area but will move to places that are in urgent need.
Mr. Mwansa further said to improve on monitoring of workers, the Judiciary has placed six bio-metric system points which indicate the time a person reports for work and when they leave.
He said the bio-metric system has helped a lot because workers cannot knock off before the required time
The bio-metric system does not respond to commands before knocking off time thereby making everyone work within the required hours.
He said this system will soon be extended to other parts of the country in the Judiciary once funds were available.
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Welcome move ba Judiciary. Pls led the way, too much casualization among civil servants… If you can pin civil servants to the stipulated time-frames (i.e 08-00hrs – 1700hrs), its already one problem solved.
But do something about the toilets also!
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