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Power outage cripples courts’ activities

Activities at the Federal High Court complex in Lagos were yesterday crippled for more than eight hours owing to a power outage, leaving lawyers, litigants and court officials frustrated. New Telegraph learnt that all the courtrooms within the premises of the complex were in darkness from about 8am till around 3.45pm. It was further gathered that the court’s management could also not resort to an alternative power source because the two generators which supply backup electricity to the courtrooms were faulty and undergoing repairs. A court official, who spoke under condition of anonymity, however, disclosed that efforts were on to get both generators working. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Folabi Kuti was one of the lawyers affected. He described the situation as worrisome.

He said: “We attended court with the settled expectation of having our matter heard. We got there at about 8am-8:30am and noticed that there was no electricity. We made enquiries if at some point the generators would come on and we were assured that the two generators that power the entire Federal High Court premises were under repairs or being serviced and that hopefully by 9am or thereabouts they would be able to restore power.

“But we stayed there till about 10:30am and when it looked like that was not going to happen, that’s when I had to leave for another matter elsewhere and had my colleague stay back. The report I got from him about two hours later was that there was still no light. “It is worrisome and this is one of the things that slow down the already slow pace of justice delivery in our clime.”

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