SERAP threatens to drag President Buhari to court ~ Zeniths Blog

SERAP threatens to drag President Buhari to court

– SERAP says the failure of the FG to pay the salaries and allowances of judges amounts to interference in the judiciary

– The group threatens to explore all legal avenues nationally and internationally to compel the federal government to pay the outstanding salaries and allowances of judges

SERAP threatens President Buhari with legal action over failure pay judges

SERAP has said the failure to pay the salaries of judges would hamper their ability carry out their duties.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has told President Muhammadu Buhari to effect the immediate payment of outstanding salaries and allowances of judges and judicial workers across the country or face legal action.

READ ALSO: IDP Bombing: Fayose reacts, calls for investigation

The organisation in the letter dated January 18, 2017 and signed by SERAP executive director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, said the failure to pay regularly and punctually the salaries and allowances of judges amounts to an implicit interference, Daily Post reports.

It said: “The Senate of Nigeria has disclosed that federal judges have not been paid their salaries and allowances for four months. SERAP is seriously concerned that failing to pay regularly and punctually the salaries and allowances of judges amounts to an implicit interference, and would seem to make judges dependent on the will of other branches of government, especially the executive, for the payment of their salaries.”

The group threatened to explore all legal avenues nationally and internationally to compel the federal government to pay the outstanding salaries and allowances

of judges and judicial workers if it delays to do so.

SERAP said the failure to pay the salaries of judges would hamper their ability carry out their duty.

READ ALSO: Suspected Fulani hersdmen attack southern Kaduna again, kill 3

“It is double jeopardy for our judges whose salaries and allowances are not regularly and punctually paid, as these judges may not, by reason of their calling, be able to personally challenge the matter in court. And the possibility of resolving the matter in a judicial proceeding may be limited since several judges have an interest in the matter, and may not therefore with propriety undertake to hear and decide it,” it said.

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has cancelled the regular Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting to send a delegation of top government officials to Rann, Borno state, venue of the accidental bombing of an IDP camp on Tuesday, January 17.