Magistrates Fume Over Non-payment Of Salaries By Cross River State Governor | Sahara Reporters Some of the magistrates told SaharaReporters that they had not been paid since September 2019. senatorbenayade READ MORE:
Some magistrates of the Cross River State judiciary currently serving in various magisterial districts across the state have berated Governor Ben Ayade over non-payment of salaries and wrongful removal of their names from government payroll.
“Since then all the magistrates have undergone necessary professional training including a two months attachment to courts and a mandatory induction course at the National Judicial Institute , Abuja. Also, magistrates have since been posted/assigned to various magistrate courts across the state where they are still working and discharging their responsibilities till date, yet none of them has been paid.
“In April 2020, the state Judicial Service Commission in a bid to pander to the yearning of His Excellency conducted a screening exercise where they attempted to reduce the number of the new Magistrates to 19 and further recommended the return of all those on transfer back to the various MDAs where they came from. Yet the governor has refused to pay even one person till date,” one of them told SaharaReporters.
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