By DAYO JOHNSON

AKURE- GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has approved the construction of a law resource centre expected to gulp over N100 million.

Speaking Tuesday at the inauguration of the Library of the state Law Commission, its Chairman Chief Olusola Ebiseni, said that the resource centre would provide a conducive environment for the dispensation of justice.

Ebiseni noted that the centre was expected to be patterned along the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, would be a centre for research by lawyers, judges, law students and the public.

The Chairman said the Ministries of Justice, Lands and Housing were collaborating to provide suitable place to build the centre.

The commission according to him, had started working on the compilation of Ondo State laws from 2007 to 2010 and would soon be codified into one document.

Speaking on the achievements of the Commission, Ebiseni said it included the updating of the Ondo State Law from the Laws of 1978 to 2006.

According to him, the new law provided that the President of the customary courts in the state should be headed by a legal practitioner with five years experience at the bar.

The President of the Customary Courts who henceforth would a legal practitioner would be assisted by two others who have experience in the law,customs and traditions of the people.