As part of activities marking the third year anniversary of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s administration in Lagos State, the State Government has restated its commitment to ensuring the logical conclusion of all pending cases in court and serve justice to the people.

The government assured that no effort would be spared in ensuring the logical conclusion of the cases filed in court against kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike popularly known as Evans.

According to Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Adeniji Kazeem, who said this at the ongoing Ministerial News Briefing, the cases filed against Evans were ongoing in court, saying the issue was that the lawyer representing Evans was trying to play some games to delay the matter but in all his games, they had been defeating him in court.

Evans, who was arrested at his mansion in Magodo area of Lagos last year, was being prosecuted by the State Government in court alongside others for masterminding and executing series of high profile kidnappings and murder in the State.

While reeling out activities of the agencies under the Ministry in the last one year, the Attorney General said government received and treated a total number of eleven thousand four hundred and fifty-one cases through the Special Task Force Against Land Grabbers, Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, DSVRT, and the Special Offences, Mobile, Court in the last one year.

Kazeem said government also received three hundred and sixteen inquiries through the recently unveiled first state-owned DNA and Forensic Centre with seventy-one active cases currently ongoing bordering on homicide, rape, toxicology, child trafficking, serology, among others.

According to Kazeem, the Anti-Land Grabbers Task Force designed by the present administration to fight the menace of forceful take-over of properties received one thousand three hundred petitions out of which eight hundred and fifty-five were concluded and five hundred and thirty currently at various stages of resolution.

Kazeem said in the period under review, over thirty-five arrests of suspected notorious land grabbers were effected while twenty-six criminal prosecution cases against suspected land grabbers were presently ongoing.

Besides, the Attorney General said in a bid to enhance due diligence in property transaction, government introduced the Real Estate Electronic Litigation Database designed for the provision of access to information primarily on properties which were subject of litigation, saying since its launch, the portal has recorded over one million hits and over ten thousand consistent users from Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa and others.

Kazeem said through the Citizens’ Mediation Centre, government received a total number of forty-seven thousand two hundred and ninety-two new cases free of charge out of which twenty-five thousand one hundred and ninety-one were resolved with others at various stages of resolution.

On other high profile cases, he said it was gratifying to report that the cases were progressing in court, saying the Synagogue Church case for instance on the collapsed building which killed people was progressing well, saying a no case submission filed by the accused persons instead of defending the case was recently dismissed by the Court, while the General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Reverend Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a Reverend King who was presently on death roll imposed by the court would have his fate determined in due course.