Senate To Unify Federal, State Judicial Officers’ Salaries

The bill intends to unify the salary structure as well as allowances and fringe benefits of Judicial Officers Holders both in the federal and at the state levels.

The bill, sponsored by the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, scaled second reading following the debate on the proposal by Senators during plenary.

In his lead debate, Bamidele explained that the proposal was an executive bill, forwarded to the two Chambers of the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu, in accordance with the provisions of Section 58 (2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended.