CLEEN Foundation has officially launch Lagos State Resource Centre for hosting soft and hard copies of corruption judgments.

The organisation says the initiative was part of its ongoing project on Promoting Accountability and Transparency in the Administration of Criminal Justice System in Nigeria with the support of the MacArthur Foundation.

According to its Executive Director, Benson Olugbuo, the Goal of the project was hinged on reducing corruption, promoting judicial transparency in processing anti-corruption cases; and enhancing accountability in the criminal justice system in Nigeria.

Olugbuo said this was with a view to make information (recent case laws- hard copies of court ruling/judgements with application of ACJA), on corruption and accountability easily accessible (online and offline) to legal practitioners, law enforcement agencies, Judges, Prosecutors, Defendants, government agencies responsible for the administration of criminal justice, civil society organisations working for justice sector reforms, legal scholars and researchers.

Additionally, he said the project principally seeked to monitor cases of corruption in relation to the ACJA 2015 through a web-based platform- Uwazi which is functional, accessible and within the reach of the public.

He said CLEEN Foundation practically was achieving this via this url =è https://cleen.uwazi.io, saying it was against this background that the Nigerian Barr Association have been selected to serve as a partner to host the resource centre in Lagos State.

Olugbuo said it was for this reason that they were witness the launch of the centre which would serve as a repository of hard copies of court rulings on corruption-related cases and or financial crimes cases related to the administration of criminal justice for easy access and usage of legal practitioners and their state partners.

According to him, for more impact-based monitoring and reporting of the administration of the criminal justice system across their focal states, the State working group meeting had now been realigned to hold on a Bi-monthly basis.

He said it was expected that their partners hosting the Centre would give updates on the resource centre and its successes at the meetings, appreciating partners for their concerted efforts at the concept stage to the very point in implementation.