The Benue State Government has raised the alarm over the rate and manner its Bank accounts are being garnished and frozen by litigants.
Some of the lawyers who spoke at the meeting including Prof. Akaa Imbwasse, Mr. Sunday Okpale, and Ucha Ulegede commended the Justice Commissioner for convening the meeting to feel the pulse of all the parties. Speaking shortly after, the Commissioner said “we are doing this because if we fail to take proactive steps, there will come a time that garnishee will deny us the payment of salaries because what is standing there as judgement debt is far more than what we get from Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, and federation account.
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