The National Industrial Court, on Friday, ordered the National Assembly, NASS, the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, Attorney-General of the Federation & Minister of Justice, AGF, and National Judicial Commission, NJC, to review upward the judges’ salaries.
According to to report, the justices and judges currently earn about N3 million and below as their minimum monthly salaries.
Justice Osatohanmwen Obaseki-Osaghae, gave the directive while delivering her judgment on a suit instituted via originating summon on May 4, by Chief Sebastien, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria
The court held that by the combined interpretation of the provision of section 4 (1) (2) of the 1999 constitution as amended and the first schedule of 6 (1b) of the RMAFC Act 2004, the first and second defendants did not have the power to neglect, by failing to perform their constitutional and statutory duties of reviewing judges’ salaries since 2008. Ms. Obaseki-Osaghae further declared the act unconstitutional and said that the current salaries of judges were embarrassingly too low given the present socio-economic realities and other factors such as the value of the naira against the currencies of some countries
