WHY WE CANNOT TACKLE DECAY IN THE JUDICIARY -Okorocha
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, says his administration cannot tackle infrastructural decays in the state’s judiciary because the state High Court slammed a whooping N17 billion damages against his government.
Okorocha said his administration is currently facing a staggering N17 billion judgment debt slammed on it by the court.
The governor disclosed this while responding to the addresses delivered in Owerri, during the assizes of Imo State Judiciary.
This is as the state Chief Judge, CJ, Justice Paschal Nnadi, expressed concern over the level of insecurity around serving judges and magistrates and the depleting staff strength of the Imo State Judiciary.
“This administration is currently facing a N17 billion judgment debt handed down by a particular Judge of the State High Court. This money is already under garnishee. This money was meant to pay judges”, Okorocha said.
The governor said that he had no apologies for retiring the Accountant General of the state for failing to pay salaries as expressly directed.
On the appointment of judges, Okorocha requested that it should be thrown open.
“I am requesting that the appointment of judges must be thrown open. What we have now is elitist conspiracy. A situation where a few individuals meet and decide on who becomes a judge must be stopped”, Okorocha said.
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While using the opportunity to reel out his achievements in office, the governor equally said that majority of the lawyers in the audience would not have qualified to practice, if not for the free education policy of his administration.
“Most of the submissions by the speakers today (yesterday), are fabricated fallacies. There had been governments before me. I have only been governor for seven years and the level of dilapidation complained by the speakers, did not start from me”, Okorocha said.
On the destruction of Ekeukwu, Owerri, the governor said “it
was deliberate because it was a breeding ground for criminals.”
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