Kogi Judiciary Pay 5 Months Salary – TheNigerialawyer

The staff of the Kogi State Judiciary have been paid five months
salaries following the completion of the staff biometric
exercise.

Kogi State Government had in November 2018 initiated a policy of
Biometric Data Capturing/Enrolment of State Workers aimed at
deepening the verification of the current staff strength/wage bill
and ensuring probity, accountability and transparency in the
disbursement of salaries to state workers.

While the exercise was successfully implemented by the Executive
and the Legislative arms of Government, the Judiciary owing to
certain misunderstanding with respect to the exercise did not
participate.

The foregoing had led to non-payment of salaries of workers
under the Judicial Arm of Government. Succour however came the way
of judiciary workers in the state when due to the efforts of the
state government, the intervention of the National Judicial Council
and the co-operation of the Judiciary, the exercise commenced on
Monday 15th July 2019 (8 months after the exercise was
initiated).

The State Commissioner for Finance, Asiwaju Mukadam Asiru while
speaking to news men in Lokoja yesterday confirmed that the
Biometric Data Capture/Enrolment of judiciary staff had been
completed and that Staff had been paid 5 months’ salary arrears
while promising that other arrears would be paid shortly.

The Commissioner when asked why it took Government so long to
resolve the issues and pay the workers, stated that Government had
from the beginning appealed to the necessary parties on the need to
put the welfare of the workers first but the appeals yielded
solution as the Judiciary remained resolute in their resolve not to
participate in the exercise.

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Chief Judge Frees 56 Awaiting Trial Inmates in
Anambra

The Chief Judge of Anambra State Justice Ijem Onwuamaegbu has
visited the four prisons in the state in exercise of the powers
conferred on her to conduct gaol delivery exercise.

The exercise which took her four days to complete, saw her
discharging twenty-one(21) deserving inmates and admitted
thirty-five(35) others to bail in the most liberal terms.

Briefing newsmen at the end of the exercise in Awka Prison where
seventeen persons received their freedom from custody, the Chief
Judge thanked all her brother Judges, magistrates the Prisons,
police and the media for their assistance in ensuring that the mid
year exercise was a huge success.
Onwuamaegbu applauded the records department of the prisons
especially that of Awka prison for their ingenuity in making sure
that an inmate whose lawyer subtly forged information on his
release order was detected and brought to the court’s knowledge.
She admonished the released inmates to be good citizens and to
refrain from anything that will bring them back to the prison as
inmates.

The Controller of Prisons Barr. Nwakeze Emmanuel thanked the
Chief Judge for her assistance in the decongestion of the
prisons.

DSP EKEZIE FRANCIS
COMMAND PRO
NIGERIAN PRISONS SERVICE
ANAMBRA STATE COMMAND