President of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau (SAN), has called on Ekiti state government to be more deliberate about improving the state of facilities and security in its courts.

This is coming as a result of the collapse of a section of the High Court building last Wednesday on the Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Hon. Justice Oyewole Adeyeye.

According to Maikyau, in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the NBA, Akorede Habeeb Lawal, the unfortunate incident “brings to the fore the deplorable state of infrastructures in most court buildings in Nigeria, and the pitiable state of facilities available to court officials and users in the country.”

Maikyau, who has since been engaging the leadership of the Bar and the Judiciary in Ekiti State over this incident, has expressed his delight that the CJ is responding to treatment.

He extended the gratitude of the NBA to the doctors, nurses and other staff of ABUAD Multi-system Hospital, Ado Ekiti, where the CJ is presently being treated.

He, therefore, urged members to pray for the quick and prompt recovery of the Chief Judge.