Judgement debt refers to money that a court of law orders the losing party to pay to the winning party. The parties in the case may be an individual, a family, a company, an institution or a government.
According to the Auditor-General’s report, the committee saddled with managing the disbursement of the judgment debt was dissolved in 2013. In the report, the Auditor-General, however, recommended that the Solicitor-General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice immediately constitute the committee as required by law.
“However, the ministry has been disbursing this sum without a committee in place. Lack of control could lead to loss of public funds.”
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