Ouagadougou: The Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM) on Friday urged young magistrates to be of ‘good morality’ and to state the law with all ‘soul and conscience’, as have made twelve of their elders, admitted to retirement after nearly forty years in the profession.
‘The 2023 vintage of magistrates admitted to assert their retirement rights is a very special vintage,’ declared the president of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM), Jean Mazobé Kondé.
According to him, the 12 magistrates, all of exceptional rank, began their careers during the Revolution, a time when the judge had to lead a so-called popular justice and that of classic or even reactionary justice.
Mr. Kondé spoke yesterday Friday in Ouagadougou, during a tribute ceremony, organized for the third time by the CSM, for the benefit of 12 magistrates admitted to retirement for the year 2023.
‘You have experienced the many upheavals that our country’s justice system has experienced depending on political events,’ he maintained.
The fir
st head of the CSM specified that some of the magistrates have held high political, administrative and diplomatic functions at the national and international level.
Listening to him, the latter were able to go through and adapt to political changes during their functions to achieve their retirement.
Jean Mazobé Kondé explained that their elders were driven throughout their careers, among other things, by the spirit of good morality, professional conscience, independence, neutrality, impartiality, rigor etc.
‘Our wish, dear elders, is that the imprint that you leave within the judiciary upon your departure does not fade and that what you have been able to capitalize on as experience remains firmly anchored in the minds of your juniors,’ he urged.
The representative of retirees, Sawadogo/Tapsoba Salamata, for her part, indicated that the function of the judge consists of making decisions and does not have to be complimented.
According to her, magistrates must state the law with all ‘soul and conscience’ an
d this is what they implemented during their stay at the CSM.
‘It’s a new page that has been turned and we were thinking, even before our retirement, of having another life outside the courts,’ remarked Ms. Sawadogo
Source: Burkina Information Agency