Tinubu Sends Bill to House, Seeks Improved Salaries, Allowances for Judicial Officers

Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja

President Bola Tinubu has asked the National Assembly to consider and pass a new bill seeking to provide new salaries and allowances for judicial officers in the country. 

The Executive Bill forwarded by the president is titled ‘A Bill for an Act to prescribe the Salaries, Allowances and Fringe Benefits of Judicial Office Holders in Nigeria and for Related Matters.’

The president, in a letter read at plenary on Tuesday by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, said the bill seeks to prescribe salaries and allowances, as well as other fringe benefits for judicial officers. 

Lately, there has been agitation for an improvement to the salaries, allowances and other welfare packages of judicial officers in the country, while the president has also promised an improvement in the welfare payments of judicial officers.