Aliyu Idris, the Permanent Secretary, Bauchi State Ministry of Justice, made this known while unveiling the gazetted copies of the amended Violence Against Persons Prohibition Laws (VAPP) on Tuesday in Bauchi. “Others are the need to harmonise the dual judicial and criminal justice that run concurrently in Bauchi state by replacing Customary Court’s with Shariah Court’s to strengthen Administration of Criminal Justice in the state,” the permanent secretary said. “In the case of Administration of Criminal Justice Law and Violence Against Persons Prohibition law, the repealed laws when assented to were perhaps said to be recent existing laws only in our status books.