KADUNA STATE IS BLESSED AND A PLACE TO LIVE IN DESPITE THE HURDLES: The Kaduna State administration is led by the executive governor, currently Alh. Ramalan M. Yero of the PDP. There are 34 members in the Kaduna State House of Assembly. The State is divided into 23 local government areas for easy administration. Currently, the State owes its legal existence to the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. As a State, it is constitutionally mandated to establish: 1. an Executive arm of government headed by an elected Governor; 2. a legislative arm of government which members shall be drawn from constituencies defined in the Constitution. Its activities are presided over by a Speaker elected by the members of the State House of Assembly which oversees the exercise of the State’s legislative energies; 3. a judicial arm made up of judges, magistrates and other officers that help in the administration of justice and related activities within the State. The judicial arm is headed by the State’s Chief Justice. Nonetheless, judicial pronouncement of the State’s tribunals are subject to the appellate review of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Nigeria, in that order; 4. maintain the Local Government level of governance. Presently, the Nigerian Constitution prescribes 23 local Local Government Areas for the State; and 5. mobilize the powers of the State, the institutions and resources of its arms and levels of government in order to secure a socio-economic environment for persons resident in the State and its other stakeholders to pursue legitimate goals in dignity under the States justice administration umbrella. The Kaduna State legal system comprises; 1. The compendium of Constitutional provisions applicable to the State as one of the 36 States that constitute the Nigerian Federation; 2. Laws made by the Federal Legislature applicable throughout the entire federation or specifically to Kaduna State; 3. Laws made (or deemed to have been made), by the State’s legislature; 4. Laws made by Local Government Councils in the State; 5. Customary laws or other customs of the market place applicable under the operation of Law; 6. Judicial precedents of the courts of the State and of appellate courts with jurisdictions over its tribunals like the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Nigeria; 7. Judicial precedents of federation tribunals like the Federal High Court, the National Industrial Court, Code of Conduct Tribunal, Investments and Securities Tribunal and so on to the extent to which their mandates allow. 8. Law enforcement institutions, law enforcement officers, judges, legal practitioners, judiciary workers, other professionals and persons recognized at various levels as part of the justice administration complex of the State. Sources of Law for the Kaduna State Legal System include: 1. The Constitution of Nigeria (including its amendments and other laws it refers to expressly as having the same character as provisions contained within the formal Constitutional document; 2. Laws of the Federation of Nigeria; 3. Legislations of the National Assembly applicable to Kaduna State; 4. Legislations of the State House of Assembly; 5. Recognized customs of the people of Kaduna State; 6. Judicial precedents of courts with judicial authority over Kaduna State; 7. Local Government edicts. Here she comes, Sanga Constituency, KSHA. she need your support.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 21:42:24 +0000