The immediate-past Chief Judge of Bayelsa State, Justice Kate Abiri (retd.), is dead. She died on Thursday morning in a hospital in Yenagoa, the state capital, at the age of 65 years.
Chairman of Aleibiri Federated Community, Yenagoa Branch, Bibobra Kitchen, announced her demise in a brief statement he issued on Thursday.
“This is to inform all Aleibiri indigenes residing here in Yenagoa and general public that our daughter Hon. Justice Kate Abiri, former Chief Judge of Bayelsa State, is late,” Kitchen said in the statement.
“She died this morning, Thursday 3rd August, 2023. As usual, the 4 days mourning and gathering commences today being Thursday 3rd at her Compound, Former Commissioner’s Quarters, Opolo, Yenagoa,” he said.
The statement did not, however, disclose the cause of her death.
Justice Abiri was born on January 13, 1958. She graduated from the University of Jos In 1983 with a Bachelor of Law degree in the Second Class Lower Division and in that same year was admitted into the Nigerian Law School, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Abiri, who retired from the Bayelsa State Civil Service on January 13, 2023, served as Chief Judge of the state for 15 years, swearing in former governors of Bayelsa and Rivers States, Seriake Dickson and Nyesom Wike, as well as incumbent Bayelsa governor, Douye Diri.
