KWABENG COURT TO START SITTING (Page 44)

Story: A. Kofoya-Tetteh, Kwabeng

THE Kwabeng Magistrate Court in the Atiwa District in the Eastern Region which ceased functioning about 30 years ago will start sitting from this month.
Also, a new building will be constructed at nearby Anyinam to replace the old and dilapidated court building there.
The Chief Justice, Mrs Justice Theodora Georgina Wood, made these known when she visited the area yesterday.
The Chief Justice, who was accompanied by Mr Justice Stephen Allan Brobbey, a Supreme Court judge, was in the area for first-hand information on the dilapidated court building and to see how best to address the infrastructural problems of the judiciary in the area.
She said the decision to resume court sittings at Kwabeng and put up a new court building at Anyinam was to bring justice to the doorstep of the people and also help speed up the adjudication of cases in the area.
The Chief Justice stated that steps were being taken for people in every part of the country to have access to justice, adding that a number of judges and magistrates would soon be posted to courts which were without substantive judges.
She urged the people to use the Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) process to deal with minor cases to allow the courts to deal with the more serious ones.
She called on the staff of the Judicial Service to be diligent, punctual and eschew negative tendencies that would bring the service into disrepute.
She also appealed to parents to send their children, especially girls, to school so that they could grow up as responsible citizens.
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Atiwa, Mr Kwasi Osei Agyepong, gave the assurance that the assembly would collaborate with the Judicial Service to put up structures that would facilitate the work of the judiciary in the area.
He commended the Chief Justice for achieving such an enviable position by dint of hard work, selflessness and commitment.
The Chief of Abekoase, Barima Akroma Acheampong, who chaired the meeting, expressed the people’s gratitude to the Chief Justice for personally going to the area to help address the problems facing the delivery of justice there.