National Assembly seeks faster election justice
The National Assembly’s Constitution Review Committee has proposed that all election petitions must be decided before winners are sworn into office.Lawmakers also want tribunals to conclude election petitions within 60 days and appellate courts to deliver judgments on related appeals within another 60 days. Under the proposal, the Supreme Court will handle all presidential election petitions as a court of first instance, with its decisions on such cases to be delivered within 60 days of filing.Appeals from governorship election petitions will end at the Court of Appeal, which must also give its decisions within 60 days. The recommendations are part of 44 harmonised constitution amendment bills now before both chambers of the National Assembly for debate.They include changes to Sections 232, 239 and 286 of the 1999 Constitution to shorten timelines for pre-election and post-election cases. For pre-election cases, the […]
