President Bola Tinubu has sent an executive bill to the Senate, seeking for the establishment of a new salary, allowance and official benefit for judicial officers.
At the plenary on Wednesday, Senate President Godswill Akpabio read a letter from the president, seeking approval for the bill.
According to the letter, the president said the bill seeks to end the prolonged stagnation of the remuneration of judicial officers, adding that it will improve their welfare.
“Transmission of judicial office holders’ salaries and allowances bill, 2024. In accordance with the provisions of section 58, sub-section two of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.
“I forward herein, the judicial office holders, salaries and allowances bill, 2024, for the kind consideration of the senate.
“The judicial office holders salaries and allowances bill seeks to prescribe salaries and allowances and fringe benefits for judicial officials to end the prolonged stagnation in their remuneration and to reflect contemporary socio-economic realities.
“While I hope that the judicial office holders salaries and allowances bill 2024 will be carefully, yet expeditiously considered and passed by the senate,” Tinubu said in a letter read by Akpabio.