Group urges Bello to pay judiciary workers

A group, Righteous Onlookers Association, has appealed the Kogi state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to as a matter of agency look into the salaries of judiciary staff which had not been paid in the last nine months.

The group also expressed concern over the lingering crisis between the state government and the state judiciary which, it noted, had resulted in the recommendation for the sack of the state Chief Judge, Justice Nasir Ajanah, by the House of Assembly.

In a press statement issued by the patron of the group, Alhaji Ahmed Adoke, in Lokoja, the group called on the governor to release the funds meant for the judiciary to enable it to pay the salaries of the workers “who have been experiencing hardships in the last nine months.”

It further stated that “it is most disturbing that Kogi state Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, and the Chief Judge, Justice Nasir Ajanah, who are the principal personalities at the centre of the crisis are both prominent sons of Ebiraland who should ordinarily work together as brothers in the interest of the state.”

The statement also wondered why both parties did not cash in on the out-of-court application by the counsel to the state government (which was granted by Kogi state High Court, Koton-Karfi) to find a truce to the matter.

The statement read in part: “We are appealing to the parties involved to adopt a political approach that will lead to amicable resolution of the impasse between the executive and the judiciary.”

The group also appealed to traditional rulers and well-meaning apolitical Kogites to wade into the crisis.

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