The Lagos state government is to establish a cyber-forensic team to tackle cyber-crimes and create an online criminal data register for the state. The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Kazeem Adeniji stated this at a news briefing in Alausa, Ikeja.
Three years ago, the story of Cynthia Osokogu who met a supposed lover on social media and left Abuja for Lagos only to be found dead in a hotel in Festac Town, became a popular case in the country.
There are also cases of internet fraud among people popularly referred to as Yahoo boys.
It is this type of cases involving the use of the Internet and the social media that the cyber-forensic team is expected to tackle in the state.
The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Kazeem Adeniji said that the cyber-forensic team would ensure that people who put the Internet to negative use did not escape punishment.
He explained that the government would introduce an online criminal data register where particulars of convicted criminals could be accessed by everyone in any part of the world.
Mr. Adeniji said the data register would particularly help judges in handling criminal matters before them, while the state government would continue to ensure that both the rich and the poor had equal access to justice.
The commissioner said more mediation centres would be opened, while mobile courts would be introduced in each local government area to ease the work load of the regular courts.
Mr. Adeniji added that petty offenders would be sentenced to community service to decongest the prisons.
With the agenda of the justice ministry in Lagos State, it is expected that ordinary Lagosians would have more confidence in the judiciary.
Three years ago, the story of Cynthia Osokogu who met a supposed lover on social media and left Abuja for Lagos only to be found dead in a hotel in Festac Town, became a popular case in the country.
There are also cases of internet fraud among people popularly referred to as Yahoo boys.
It is this type of cases involving the use of the Internet and the social media that the cyber-forensic team is expected to tackle in the state.
The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Kazeem Adeniji said that the cyber-forensic team would ensure that people who put the Internet to negative use did not escape punishment.
He explained that the government would introduce an online criminal data register where particulars of convicted criminals could be accessed by everyone in any part of the world.
Mr. Adeniji said the data register would particularly help judges in handling criminal matters before them, while the state government would continue to ensure that both the rich and the poor had equal access to justice.
The commissioner said more mediation centres would be opened, while mobile courts would be introduced in each local government area to ease the work load of the regular courts.
Mr. Adeniji added that petty offenders would be sentenced to community service to decongest the prisons.
With the agenda of the justice ministry in Lagos State, it is expected that ordinary Lagosians would have more confidence in the judiciary.
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