BY CHIDI NKWOPARA

OWERRI- Imo State Judiciary has concluded arrangements to establish and gazette family courts in the state, with a view to appropriately addressing family matters.

Imo State Chief Judge,  Justice Benjamin  Njemanze, disclosed this in Owerri when he played host to the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Anagam Ononuju, in his chamber.

Justice Njemanze immediately directed the Chief Registrar of the State High Court to “take immediate steps to see that the family court is properly established and gazetted.”

He promised to constitute the personnel that would adequately take charge of the courts as soon as they were established.

Speaking earlier, the commissioner recalled that the chief  judge had earlier inaugurated an ad-hoc committee to identify structures that would serve as court halls in the three senatorial zones of the  state.

“Structures have been designated and budgetary allocation has equally been made. What we are expecting now is for the Chief Judge to officially pronounce the establishment of the family court in the state,” Ononuju said.