Osun Governor Approves Money For Payment Of Salary Arrears To Retired Judges

 Governor  Ademola  Adeleke of Osun state has approved  money  for  the payment of salary arrears to  retired judges  in the state. 

 A statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by the governor’s Special Adviser, Mr. Olawale Rasheed  on  Tuesday   noted that  Adeleke had done this to sustain ‘cordial relationship’ with the Judiciary.

 ‘In a move widely applauded by the legal community, Governor Adeleke posited that judges, serving or retired, deserve maximum support and partnership of the executive arm of government,  while apologizing for the neglect by the previous government of such a matter of importance that has to do with the well being of judicial officers’ the statement said.

‘I am not just committed to clearing such inherited salary matters, I am also working to provide requisite logistic support for serving judicial officers. The judiciary must be provided with  the tools for efficient justice administration and adjudication’ the governor was quoted as saying.

‘The governor who has received several awards as ‘most-worker-and-pensioner- friendly Governor’ further reassured judicial officers that their wellbeing remains uppermost in his mind, asking the bar and the bench to remain focused and undistracted by agents of destabilization’ the statement added.

While reacting to some recently sponsored social media reports insinuating a strained relationship between the present administration in the state and the  Judiciary, the governor warned those running solicited and unsolicited social media errands for the Osun Chief Judge to desist from this, while drawing the attention of peddlers and sponsors of such fake news to the danger and implications of spreading fake news on internet.

‘The present administration in Osun State has its number one priority which is the welfare of workers, how much more the welfare of the judicial officers of the state whether serving or retired. Since this administration came on board, the State Government has continued to enjoy a harmonious working relationship with the State Judiciary.

There has never been any time that our administration has made any attempt to gag the judiciary or unduly influence any of the State’s judicial officers. We are clearing the inherited financial obligations owed to our judicial officers both serving and retired. What the peddlers of fake news and their sponsors intend to achieve by insinuating or feigning a strained relationship between the State Government and the State Judiciary is what we don’t know.

Recently, we constituted statutory commissions in the State among which is the State Judicial Service Commission solely for the purpose of catering adequately for the needs of the Judiciary. If there is any rot in the Osun Judiciary, it must have been there before the present administration came on board and we are committed to helping to reshape our judiciary so that it would truly live up to the expectations of being the last hope of the common man.

Our mission is to ensure an improved condition of service for our judicial officers so much that no one among our serving judicial officers will have to work without the necessary incentives to enhance their performance and no one among our retired judicial officers should live in hassle and pains’  the governor declared-Team@orientactualmags.com
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