Gov. Diri Pledges Support For Capacity Building Of Lawyers
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said he would support any initiative towards enhancing the capacity of legal practitioners in the state.
Governor Diri made the pledge when President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olumide Akpata, paid a courtesy visit to Government House, Yenagoa, on Tuesday.
He applauded the NBA President for the initiative to go round branches of the association nationwide to know their challenges.
While commending Akpata’s vision for capacity building for lawyers, the governor said a basic problem of the judiciary in the state was training and retraining jand pledged his support for any training initiative.
In response to a request that courts be also provided in rural areas apart from the state capital for easy access to justic...