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FOI COUNSEL HAILS NEW ZAMBIA DPP

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FOI COUNSEL FELICITATES WITH NEWLY APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTION OF ZAMBIA

18th October 2022

GILBERT ANDFORD PHIRI, ESQ
Director of Public Prosecution
Federal Ministry of Justice,
Fairley Road, Lusaka,
Republic of Zambia

My dear friend,

LETTER OF FELICITATION
The above subject matter refers.

I am delighted to hear of your appointment as the Director of Public Prosecution of the Republic of Zambia.

I know you as a discipline, strategic and proactive public interest lawyer and now a senior public officer. I confirm you have whatever positive endowments the institutions of Africa desire of its men. My sincere wish is that this message motivates you to reinvigorate the architecture of criminal investigation and prosecution as it arises in Zambia and position it for a crime free one.

Similarly, I hope you will use this new office to support the enforcement/passage of digital rights and open government legislations (particularly access to information law) in the country. This has a soft influence on criminal investigation and litigation and it can also deter young persons from crimes owing to the avalanche opportunities in these laws.

As you await the ratification of the National Assembly, I wish you the best of tenure as I cannot wait to see your contribution to the government of Zambia under the leadership of President Hakainde Hichilema

Yours faithfully,

President Aigbokhan, LL.B, LLM (AAU), BL, ACI. Arb
Lead
FOI COUNSEL

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FOI COUNSEL, RUDILAC LAUNCH ‘PRESIDENT’S NEWSLETTER’

FOI Counsel and Rural Development, Information and Legal Advocacy Centre (RUDILAC) have launched the President’s Newsletter. The event took place on 29th day of September 2022 at John Odigie Oyegun Public Service Training Centre, Benin City.

This first edition of the quarterly Newsletter has the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Olukayode Ariwoola on its cover with the theme “Open Justice.” The edition evaluates the current position of Nigerian law with regards to public access and review of court room proceedings.

According to Mr. President Aigbokhan, the Editor-in-Chief, “This edition of the newsletter is to re-focus public participation in the judicial process and interrogate the link between ICT and the justice sector. This edition of the newsletter advocates for the court to create an Access to Information Policy as a way of strengthening proactive disclosure”.

The newsletter highlights stories like clamour for financial autonomy of the judiciary, ethnic dominance at appellate courts and dataset for open justice among others.

Some of the contributors include Hon. Justice Eseohe Ikpomwen (former Chief Judge of Edo State), Joseph Otteh of Access 2 Justice, Abbas Inuwa of transparenceIT and John Osawe.

Some of the dignitaries present at the launch include the Chief Judge of Edo Hon, Justice Joe Acha who was represented by Hon. Justice Peter Akhikhiero; veteran civic actor Comrade Austin Osakue; former EDOCSO helmsman, Com. Omobude Agho; Dr. Uyi Ojo of Environmental Rights Action (ERA); Prof. Carl Oshodin of Africa Industrialization Group; Mrs. Imuwaghen of John Odigie Oyegun Public Service Training Centre, and the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Communication, Mr. Solomon Imohiosen.

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