Advancing the course for alternative justice system has the potential of not only improving access to justice for many but also reducing penal population, delays and at times miscarriage of justice. In a country that is largely organic with traditional system still in place, the use of AJS can very much competent the formal justice system if the statues so admit. however, it may be hard to determine the appropriate operational policy instruments that can have an overarching and binding especially in a multi/cross-cultural rural settings.