A former Governor of Imo State,
Chief Ikedi Ohakim, has vowed to lead a protest against the state government
for denying high court judges of their salaries for 16 months.
Ohakim, who read the riot act
weekend in Owerri while announcing his gubernatorial ambition to journalists,
also gave Governor Rochas Okorocha up to the end of next month, to clear the
judges’ salaries or risk protest.
“None of the arms of government
is superior to the other. I have personally written to the Chief Justice of
Nigeria and President Muhammadu Buhari on this ugly development. I really don’t
understand why judges should be denied their salaries because government has
consistently lost it’s very bad cases brought before the courts”, Ohakim said.
While lamenting that the
President of the Customary Court of Appeal, Justice Pius I. Okpara, died in
office without getting his emoluments, Chief Ohakim also fumed that the lives
of most of the judges were in danger, as they can no longer pay their medical
bills.
“Judges are not expected to
engage in any money yielding venture while serving. Government should not
expect to be saved by the judges when it brazenly flouts the rule of law. For
now, judgment debts of over N9 billion is hanging on the neck of Imo State
Government”, Ohakim said.
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