President Muhammadu Buhari has been dragged to the Supreme Court by the 36 state governors with regards to the executive order on the funding of courts, which he signed on May 20.
The president’s executive order no. 00-10 of 2020 pushed the Federal Government’s responsibility of funding both the capital and recurrent expenditures of the state High Courts, Sharia Courts of Appeal, and the Customary Courts of Appeal, to the state governments.
They insisted that the order is a clear violation of sections 6 and 8(3) of the 1999 constitution.
They also claimed that they had been funding the capital and recurrent expenditure of the listed courts since 2009 as Buhari abandoned his responsibility.
“Since the 5th of May 2009, the defendant had not funded the capital and recurrent expenditures of the state high courts, Sharia Court of Appeal and the Customary Court of Appeal of the plaintiffs’ states, apart from paying only the salaries of the judicial officers of the said courts.
“The plaintiffs’ states have been solely responsible for funding the capital and recurrent expenditures of the state high courts, Sharia Court of Appeal and the Customary Court of Appeal of the plaintiffs’ states, which the defendant has failed and/or refused to fund”, they said.
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