“The budget of the Federal High Court has been on a downward trend; it kept going down whereas we keep recruiting more judges. The budget has been going down for years now,” he said.
But she added that with the Federal High Court having divisions in all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja, “to replicate virtual court proceedings facilities across all the divisions require funds.” Despite having this in place, many courts barely embraced virtual hearing before they fully reopened as the lockdown eased up last year.
Appearing for the budget defence at the House of Representatives’ Committee on Judiciary, the commission’s Executive Secretary of the council, Ahmed Saleh, appealed to the legislative and executive arms of government to increase the funding for the judiciary in line with the realities of the times. He added that the COVID-19 pandemic caused the judiciary to continue to leverage on ICT “which requires more money.”A former Chief Justice of Nigeria , Aloma Mukhtar, had during the Supreme Court’s new legal year ceremony held on September 23, 2013, lamented the poor funding of Nigeria’s judiciary.
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