Renowned Constitutional lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Sebastine Hon, has insisted that the realization of financial independence of the
Hon argued that the ongoing indefinite nationwide strike by the judiciary workers in Nigeria could have been averted if the constitution had been properly understood and interpreted by parties.
According to him section 6 of the 1999 constitution listed the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Federal High Court, National Industrial Court, High Court of the Federal Capital Territory , High Court of a State, Sharia Court of Appeal, FCT, Sharia Court of Appeal of a State, Customary Court of Appeal of FCT and Customary Court of Appeal of a State as courts of superior records and creation of the federation.
“Since these are also “Federal” courts established to function within states of the Federation, therefore, they are supposed to also be part of the expenditure content of Mr President’s annual budgetary estimates submitted to the National Assembly”, he added. He, therefore, asked the National Judicial Council to as a matter of urgency assume responsibility for collecting, collating and fine-tuning budgetary estimates in respect of superior courts of record from the various Heads of the courts for onward delivery to the Budget Office of the Federation to be included in the annual budget of the federation.
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