Africa-Press – Tanzania. PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has directed all stakeholders in the judiciary to speed up the hearing of cases in different courts for timely justice dispensation.
Similarly, the Head of State has asked judges, magistrates and other officials within the judiciary to be led by their conscience in the course of discharging their duties, so that justice is done during releasing the final verdict.
The president issued a directive during the official launching of six integrated justice centres, which will help Tanzanians to have access to justice as well as easing the burden of travelling long distances to access judicial services.
The newly launched centres which were constructed at the cost of 51.5bn/- courtesy of a loan from the World Bank are located in Dodoma, Mwanza, Arusha, Morogoro, Kinondoni and Temeke.
Speaking at the Dodoma integrated justice centre, President Samia underscored the need for the judiciary to capitalise on the use of ICT, in order to fast track the hearing of cases as well as reducing backlog of cases.
She directed the Chief Court Administrator, Prof Elisante Ole Gabriel, to meet with authorities in the Ministry of Information, Communications and Information Technology and those from the Ministry of Finance and Planning to look on the possibility of increasing bandwidth from the current 100 million that the judiciary receives from the government to 400 million bandwidth which are needed for internet use.
