National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed has urged Nigerian judges to Decline the houses built for judges of the Appeal Court.
Describing it as a bribe, the PRP National Chairman speaking in an interview on Trust TV said, “If this government genuinely built an estate for judges, literally, it’s a bribe. That’s the fact.”
He argued that the government should rather improve their salary and allowances to improve their lives so that they can build their own houses.
He added that, “Building houses for them and exempt other workers is absurd. Why can’t the government build houses for permanent secretaries or doctors?”
“If I were to advise the judges, I would straight up tell them not to accept the house gifts.”
Recalls that President Bola Ahmed Tinubj recently commissioned the newly completed 10-unit Court of Appeal Judges’ Quarters in Katampe District of Abuja.