Bobo Dioulasso, The Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM), trained in Dédougou for three days, from Wednesday to Friday, around thirty magistrates on the new disciplinary procedure guide of the judicial institution .

The training took place in partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

According to the president of the Superior Council of the Magistrature (CSM), Jean Mazobé Kondé, the training is justified in the sense that “public opinion often criticizes judges for ethical and deontological drifts”.

The head of the CSM spoke on Wednesday, in Dédougou, at the opening of a three-day training meeting on the new disciplinary procedure guide for the benefit of around thirty judges from the Bobo Dioulasso Court of Appeal.

For him, the judicial institution has taken the problem head-on by adopting a code of ethics for magistrates with awareness workshops on the guide to disciplinary procedure.

Mr. Kondé explained that the training sessions will continue at the end of November 2021 with the magistrates of the Court of Appeal of Ouagadougou.

These will be followed by those of the Court of Appeal of Fada N’Gourma next December.

Mr. Kondé specified that the magistrates were also equipped on the regulation of the commission of admission of the requests of the judicial institution.

Jean Mazobé Kondé, recalled that several preventive actions have been carried out through training so that ethics are mastered and observed by any magistrate.

To believe it, if dysfunctions are noted, it is necessary to go to the “curative” by the administration of a therapy in order to find corrective solutions.

Mr. Kondé also noted that justice in general and the judiciary in particular, are the subject of much criticism from Burkinabè citizens.

“It is hardly a wish, nor an honor to hold a disciplinary council so that magistrates come to answer in front of their peers, of facts which are reproached to them. But if the context requires it, the CSM will make it its duty to proceed with full responsibility, ”he argued.

The president of the CSM indicated that this popularization of the new guide to disciplinary procedure falls within the framework of his program “Social cohesion, security and rule of law (COSED) in Burkina”.

As a reminder since March 2021, the CSM has had a disciplinary procedure guide applicable to magistrates and internal regulations for the commission for the admission of requests.

Source: Burkina Information Agency