National president, Magistrates Association of Nigeria, Saidu Safiyanu Umar, yesterday, urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to assent the Bill, seeking to
Umar made the plea in a statement he signed and made available to journalists.
He also pleaded with President Tinubu to elongate the years of service for magistrates from 60 to 65. He stressed that magistrate courts are at the grassroots, which perform the bulk of the judicial work and the nearest court to the masses. He said the code of conduct for judicial officers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria recognised magistrates as judicial officers.
However, they were excluded on remuneration and welfare, leaving magistrates as neither judicial officers nor civil servants without well defined conditions for service.
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