By Marie-Therese Nanlong

Some staff of the Plateau State Ministry of Justice have been sponsored for a study tour to Lagos State to understudy the workings and operations of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice;

Lands Bureau and Office of the Surveyor-General and replicate their modules for improved governance in Plateau State.

The State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Philemon Daffi disclosed this while presenting his Ministry’s scorecard in the 3rd phase of the Ministerial press briefing held on Monday in Jos.

Daffi and his counterparts from the State Ministries of Health; Water Resources and Energy; Environment, Climate Change and Mineral Development; Tourism, Culture and Hospitality; and Science and Technology made known their achievements in office in the last year.

He added that his Ministry, among other achievements also ensured the “passage and gazetting of the Plateau State Law Reform Commission Law; Plateau State Citizens Mediation Centre Law; Plateau Electricity Market Law, and the Plateau State Energy Corporation Law.”

To the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Cletus Shurkuk, his Ministry during the period under review, recorded some remarkable achievements in the areas of staff welfare, infrastructures, capacity building, and system strengthening, as well as partnership with both local and international Non-Governmental Organizations.

He stated, “The Ministry in collaboration with Christian Blind Mission renovated, equipped, and commissioned the Eye Unit at the General Hospital Pankshin to cater for all Eye related illnesses for the people of the Central Senatorial Zone of the State. Activities at this centre have since commenced.”

The Commissioner for Environment, Climate Change and Mineral Development, Peter Gwom stressed that there has been a “new deployment of forest guards for our forest reserves; partnership with UNESCO, and the Government of India for biosphere activities; tree planting and maintenance – Shrubs, and evacuated major dumps and cleaned rail tracks.”