A shocking revelation was made on Thursday by the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Joseph Daudu, SAN of a certain judge who retired from the Bench at the mandatory 65 years of age and died two years later, only for his family to announce in his obituary that he died at age 80.
Daudu, who spoke at the valedictory court session in honour of the retiring Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher, was silent on the identity of the affected judge.
He advocated scientific evaluation of aspiring judges’ ages to curb widespread falsification of age by judicial officers, while calling on the incoming Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, to speedily sack ailing judicial officers with debilitating medical conditions that have incapacitated them.
“A number of Heads of Courts are faced with very sick judicial officers; these officers are afflicted with varying debilitating medical conditions that completely impair their ability to perform judicial functions.
“These include loss of eye sight, hearing, terminal physiological ailments, chronic contagious diseases, among others. In most cases, these officers remain on the Bench doing no work for years and collecting their salaries and perquisites. It is time strict rules were devised, through expeditious medical boards of assessment, to determine the state of health and ability of such sick and non-performing judicial officers to continue in judicial service.”
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