Constitution Amendment: CJN Wants Review Of Judges’ Salary Every 4 Years

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Muhammad has asked the National Assembly to alter the constitution to mandate the National Judicial Council (NJC) to fix and review Judges’ salaries every four years.

The CJN made this submission in the paper he presented as recommendations of the judiciary on the occasion of the national public hearing by the Senate Committee on review of the 1999 Constitution held at the Africa Hall of the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja.

In a 17-page paper titled “Input by the Judiciary to the Proposed Alteration to the 1999 Constitution (as Amended)”, the CJN submitted before the senate committee, contains 45 constitutional amendment proposals on reforms in the Nigerian judiciary.