Ogun CJ laments unfair treatment of judicial workers

By James Ogunnaike

The Chief Judge of Ogun State, Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu, yesterday,lamented implicit what she described arsenic long-standing mediocre remuneration and unfair attraction of judicial officers successful Nigeria, pointing retired that the unfair attraction is plaguing the country’s judicial system.

Dipeolu, who stated this portion delivering her remark astatine the Conference of Judges successful Ogun State, which was portion of programmes to usher successful 2025/2026 Legal Year successful Ogun state, disclosed that judges’ salaries remained stagnant for 15 years, from 2008 to 2023, contempt the captious relation they play successful upholding the regularisation of law. She stated that the stagnation of judges’ salaries for implicit a decennary has led to fiscal struggles and neglect, which has negatively impacted their well-being and quality to present justness effectively.

Dipeolu besides highlighted that inadequate backing of the judiciary, mediocre infrastructure and outdated technology, person besides hindered the effectual medication of justness successful Nigeria.The Chief Judge expressed interest astir the intelligence wellness of judges, citing probe that shows judges acquisition precocious levels of distress, burnout, obesity, hypertension, and intelligence wellness issues owed to workload and stress.

While urging the authorities to see regular wage increment and improved moving conditions to beforehand judges’ well-being, Dipeolu noted that a steadfast and well-supported judiciary is indispensable for the effectual medication of justness and the promotion of the regularisation of law.

He besides lamented the outrageous amounts of wealth being allocated and virtually shared by the members of the enforcement and legislature.

Quoting from Vanguard Newspaper successful the Editorial of June 16, 2022 connected the taxable addressing judges welfare, helium said, “the insubstantial had written wholly I punctuation the legislative and enforcement arms which power and spent the fiscal resources of the state are among the champion remunerated successful the world. Though the authoritative salaries look puny, the wide conditions of work are among the astir enviable among their peers globally.The easiness with which immoderate of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers were capable to bring retired the 100 cardinal naira for the acquisition of the All Progressives Congress, APC, statesmanlike funds.” “.

and the empowerment, punctuation and unquote, programme of lawmakers shows that the 2 branches assistance themselves to our Commonwealth portion neglecting the judiciary”.

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