Ex-Appeal Court judge Oniyangi advocates decentralisation of Supreme Court

Retired Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi of the Court of Appeal, Jos Division, has stressed the need for the decentralisation of the Supreme Court to speed up the dispensation of justice in the country.
Oniyangi, who made the call while speaking with newsmen in Abuja, said that the workload for the Judges in Nigeria was too much in most cases.
The Kwara born retired jurist said the dicentralisation of the Apex court would enable assigned justices in each geopolitical zone to handle cases without congesting the court in Abuja.
According to him, Supreme Court has a number of cases Abuja is full to the brim, cases are pending. The justices are trying but the number of justices cannot cope with the pressure of jobs going on.”
The jurist also called for a division of the Court of Appeal in every ,state to aid the reduction of pending cases, noting that the court was short of manpower.
While arguing that the judges could not cope with the volumes of court cases assigned to them, said that the delay in delivering judgement in most cases was not the fault of the Judge.
He blamed unnecessary delay in dispensation of Justice, particularly in cases involving politics to the inability of parties to present witnesses before the court.
He said that the delay most times caused by parties involved in the case as they might keep requesting for more time to present witnesses to testify before the court.