A former Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Short has backed calls by judges for an upward review of their remunerations and conditions of service.
Supreme Court judge, William Atuguba, who spoke on behalf of the Judges at the Annual General Meeting of the Association of Magistrates and Judges of Ghana on Wednesday, demanded that judges be given some extra allowances to compensate them for their efforts at ensuring justice in the country.
These demands came days after over 150 lower court judges threatened to abandon the courts if their demands for a 10 percent salary increase was not adhered to.
Salaries and conditions of service inadequate
Justice Short admitted that such calls were unusual but still warranted given “the enormous responsibility that judges have” as he maintained that “their salaries and conditions of service are quite inadequate.”
He explained that the need for such a review becomes more apparent when judges retire as they now “have to pay for you own medical bills, you don’t have any security, and you don’t have any other facility.
Thus he said, “I think these allowances which they are calling for are in the right direction and they should be consolidated.”
“I agree that it is unusual for a judge of his standing to make this call in public but I don’t think it is improper. I think if the judges feel they are not adequately paid, they have the right to make that call in public,” he added.
Source: Citifmonline
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What about the masses. Thinking of yourselves alone? Its NOT fair.
THe simple truty is that everybody in Ghana deserve better pay. What they are getting is a reflection of the economy and the society in general. if you raise the perks of the judges and inflation erodes it, are we not back at the same place? SOme of the judges are to blame. They have the opportunity to 'correct' Ghana's socio-economic leadership so that the wrong people do not get the chance to destroy the nation for all of us. Instead, they let the bad people climb into positions from which they proceeded to destroy the country's social and economic well-being. They are now paying the price of their indifference.
What are the total compensation that these judges enjoy? They have all the juicy perks like bungalows (free rent), government cars, free fuel, and other freebies. So if we add their salaries and all the "free" stuff that they enjoy, their actual pay is way up there. let the truth be known.
The judges should go on aluta and demand better pay and stop taking bribe. That is the only language Incompetent John Mahama understand... Atuguba and his colleagues took bribe from corrupt John Maham through Oye Luther and pass judgement on his favour in the 2012 presidential election dispute.