Bauchi NBA opposes gender-based allocation in judges’ appointment plan

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has urged Governor Bala Mohammed to reconsider the planned assignment of 7 caller High Court judges successful the authorities implicit what it described arsenic gender-based segregation successful the recruitment process.

Addressing journalists successful Bauchi, the president of the NBA Bauchi Branch, Rabiu Garba, said the relation was acrophobic astir a nationalist announcement issued by the Bauchi State Judicial Service Commission for the assignment of 7 judges, with 5 slots allegedly reserved for females and 2 for males.

Garba said the notice, referenced BAS/JSC/S/APP/3/VOL.III and dated 27 April 2026, had generated wide interest among members of the relation owed to its explicit sex classification.

According to him, the statement contravened Section 42(1) of the 1999 Constitution, which prohibits favoritism connected the ground of sex, ethnicity, religion, oregon different status.

He explained that the concerns raised by members led to the convening of an exigency legislature connected May 15, 2026, astatine the Bauchi Bar Centre, wherever the substance was extensively deliberated upon.

The NBA, however, commended the Chief Judge of Bauchi State and Chairman of the Judicial Service Commission, Justice Rabi Talatu Umar, for securing 7 judicial slots for the state, but added that the assignment process indispensable comply with law provisions and principles of fairness.