A Federal High
Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the federal and state governments to release
forthwith all monies meant for the judiciary to Chief Judges, in line with
constitutional provision.
Delivering judgment today in a
suit filed by the Judiciary Workers Union, Justice Adeniyi Adetokunbo-Ademola
heled that the gradual payment of funds due to the judiciary is
unconstitutional, null and void and should be stopped forthwith.
Justice Adetokunbo-Ademola also
gave a perpetual injunction restraining the federal and state governments from
further violating the provisions of the constitution with regards to first line
funding of the judiciary.
Justice Adetokunbo-Ademola ruled
that aside Bayeals and Akwa-Ibom States, the federal and state governments, have
been violating Section 81(sub-section-3) of the 1999 Constitution as amended
and therefore should be stopped forthwith.
Counsel to one of the defendants, promised to contest
the ruling.
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