Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has signed two bills into law. The bills are Rivers State Judicial Institute Law No. 8 of 202, and the Rivers State Housing Scheme for Judicial Officers Law,No.10 of 2021.
The law aims to promote Judicial autonomy and protect the officers from corrupt practices.
The Governor who spoke during the signing on Tuesday in Government House,Port Harcourt also said the provision of homes for Judicial Officers of Rivers origin serving in the state and at the national level would spur their performance .
Wike explained that “one thing that gives people hope is shelter.Part of the reasons people are corrupt is that they don’t have the opportunity to own a house where they can put their heads at the end of the day,at retirement “adding that his government believed that one of the ways to stop corruption was to allow them have their own houses.
‘ For us as a government,we believe that one of the things that we do to stop corruption is to allow them to have their own house”.
