* Justice minister says President Kabila sacked the
judges for not having law degrees or because of
corruption.
MORE than 250 judges have been sacked in the Democratic Republic
of Congo for not having a law degree, and corruption
allegations.
President Joseph Kabila “sanctioned more than 200 individuals
who do not fulfil the conditions to function as magistrates”,
Justice Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwamba said on public television on
Monday.
Local media reported that a total of 256 were either suspended
or sacked, two others resigned while another was put on
retirement.
The sprawling country has some 4,000 magistrates.
“One cannot enter the judiciary with the objective of making
money,” Mwamba said, describing the removed judges as “adventurers”
who entered the judiciary without a law degree or others who took
bribes to deliver a favourable ruling.
“It is evident that there are other magistrates who escaped this
dragnet,” he said, adding that a law would be introduced to raise
the bar for aspiring magistrates.
It is not the first time judges have been sacked in the
mineral-rich central African country. In 2009, President Kabila
sacked 96 judges accused of corruption.
Mwamba also criticised the slow judicial system and said arrests
and detentions were used as “an instrument of intimidation and
terror against the accused to strip them of their assets”.
* Justice minister says President Kabila sacked the
judges for not having law degrees or because of
corruption.
MORE than 250 judges have been sacked in the Democratic Republic
of Congo for not having a law degree, and corruption
allegations.
President Joseph Kabila “sanctioned more than 200 individuals
who do not fulfil the conditions to function as magistrates”,
Justice Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwamba said on public television on
Monday.
Local media reported that a total of 256 were either suspended
or sacked, two others resigned while another was put on
retirement.
The sprawling country has some 4,000 magistrates.
“One cannot enter the judiciary with the objective of making
money,” Mwamba said, describing the removed judges as “adventurers”
who entered the judiciary without a law degree or others who took
bribes to deliver a favourable ruling.
“It is evident that there are other magistrates who escaped this
dragnet,” he said, adding that a law would be introduced to raise
the bar for aspiring magistrates.
It is not the first time judges have been sacked in the
mineral-rich central African country. In 2009, President Kabila
sacked 96 judges accused of corruption.
Mwamba also criticised the slow judicial system and said arrests
and detentions were used as “an instrument of intimidation and
terror against the accused to strip them of their assets”.
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