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Indications
emerged yesterday that the Judiciary was upset with the paltry vote of N67
billion earmarked in this year’s budget for the operation of the third arm of
government.
The anger of the
judiciary, it was learnt, stemmed from the failure of the Finance Minister to
fulfill earlier promise by the government to increase the budget of the
judiciary to about N100 billion.
E-biz247 learnt
that senior judges, who reviewed the N67 billion allocations to the judiciary,
described it as a mockery by the executive arm and a setback to the fight
against corruption and inefficiency.
A senior official
told E-biz247 that the judiciary was disappointed to find that allocations to
the arm of government was steadily being reduced by the executive while paying
lip service to the fight against the decay in the judicial system.
Documents made
available to our correspondent indicated that the allocation to the judiciary was
substantially and inexplicably slashed from N95 billion in 2010 to N85 billion
in 2011.
The hope of the
judiciary workers for a better budgetary provision was further dashed in 2012
when their vote was slashed to N75 billion and it came to the lowest in 2013
with a paltry allocation of N27 billion.
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