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The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has blamed the 1999 Constitution for the state’s inability to appoint more High Court judges.
The Governor, who expressed hope that the ongoing constitutional review process will address the situation, said those who drafted the constitution foisted a unitary judiciary on a federation.
He said this at the swearing-in of new High Court judges, commissioners, members of statutory commissions, and chief executives of Kaduna State Government agencies, held at the Council Chambers of Sir Kashim Ibrahim House on Friday.
“I congratulate the new High Court judges on their appointment. Left to us, we should be swearing in many more persons as judges today,” El-Rufai said.
“The credibility and effectiveness of the law and order strategy depend on the speedy dispensation of justice.
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“Speedy justice cannot be dispensed by overworked judges. We want to lighten the burden of our judges but our ability to appoint more of them is constrained because the National Judicial Council has to recommend to us to appoint.
“This is an anomaly introduced by the drafters of the 1999 Constitution who effectively foisted a unitary judiciary on a federation.
“We hope that the ongoing constitutional review process will remedy this contradiction so that we can double the number of high court judges we have in Kaduna State because we can pay for them, we can take care of them and we can lighten their workload accordingly.”
