Mr Sebastian Hon, a Constitutional lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, says that the realization of financial independence of the judiciary lies solely with the Federal Government and not on any state.
According to him, the 1999 Constitution, has made far-reaching provisions guaranteeing, in express and unequivocal terms financial independence for both superior and inferior courts in Nigeria.
“This means they are federal courts, which are, however, established for each state, just for geographical and other administrative reasons,” he said. “It runs counter to Section 121 as amended since as against the wrong notion held by Mr President, neither the original text of that subsection nor its amended version has anything to do with superior courts of records, even though located in the various states and acting as state courts.”
He also asked the NJC to disburse funds meant for the superior courts of record directly to them once the funds were made available to it.
For which judiciary? Don't be mischievous, FG can't arrest governors for tampering with their judges monies and u know! How many states obey executive orders to that effect? You know that state governors becomes rogues because of immunity! Why will GovWike owes them if he obeys?
Hmmm