Judiciary

Ogun JUSUN Begins Indefinite Strike Over Salary Dispute

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The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, Ogun State Branch, have embarked on an indefinite strike over short payment of salaries by the state government.

The Ogun State JUSUN Chairman, Comrade Edun Tajudeen, while speaking with newsmen in Abeokuta, said the strike was in compliance with the National Secretariat’s directive to begin the strike on the eleventh day of August.

Comrade Tajudeen noted that series of meetings had been held with representatives of the state government which ended in a deadlock before the decision to embark on industrial action. 

The JUSUN chairman, however, appealed to the state government to look into the requests of the workers and do the needful.

A visit to the state Magistrate and High Courts at Isabo and the new Judiciary Complex along Abeokuta-Sagamu road revealed that the courts were under lock and key, while the union leaders were on hand at the entrances disallowing people from gaining entrance into the court premises.

Wale Oluokun

Judiciary

FG Reaches Agreement with JUSUN, PASAN Over Financial Autonomy

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The Federal Government says the implementation of financial autonomy for the state legislature and judiciary will commence next week.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige stated this during conciliatory meeting to resolve the strike embarked upon by Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN and Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN). 

The Minister noted that the Federal Government took into consideration the Executive Order 10, where proposals from all sides and distilled them with the resolve to implement.

He said that implementation would commence with the distribution of the April allocation from the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, noting that striking legislative and judiciary workers would call off their prolonged strike as soon as implementation begins.

The Special Assistant to the President on Niger-Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang commended the Minister of Labour and Employment Dr Ngige for the matured handling of the labour crisis in Kaduna and the resolution of the complex issues involved in the autonomy for the legislature and Judiciary.

He said the Federal Government took into consideration the Executive Order 10, the proposals from all sides and distilled them with the resolve to implement it.

Senator Enang blamed the past administrations for turning blind eye to the autonomy of the legislature and the judiciary for 21 years, adding that the Governors had studied the document and were in agreement with it.

He clarified that the implementation would commence with the distribution of the April allocation from the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC.

FRCN Abuja

Judiciary

JUSUN Strike: Lawyers Demand Financial Autonomy in Ondo

By Web News 631

Lawyers in Ondo State have protested the continued strike action embarked upon by Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) over the demand for financial autonomy for judicial arm of government.

The lawyers from five branches in the state converged on Akure High Court complex from where they moved round the state capital and ended in the governor’s office in Alagbaka where a letter of protest was presented to the government.

Armed with different placards including, “Please, save the judiciary from sinking”,”the time for emancipation is now“, “NBA says no Executive control of judiciary“, “Aketi Obey section 121(3) of the Constitution“, “NBA believes in judicial autonomy” and “Save judiciary from drowning“, the lawyers said the governors should allow judicial autonomy in the state.

Led by the Akure branch of the NBA, Mr Rotimi Olorunfemi, Thompson Akinyemi and Chief Orimisan Okorisa of Ondo and Okitipupa branches of NBA, the lawyers said a situation where the judiciary goes to governors for fund each time is not acceptable to lawyers in the state.

In the letter submitted to the governor’s office, the lawyers said the judiciary which is an independent arm of government under the Constitution and saddle with the important role of administration of justice should not be strangulated by the executive arm of government.

Leke Adegbite

Judiciary

JUSUN Strike : Ogun Judicial Workers Comply With Union

By Web News 981

All judiciary offices and court premises in Ogun state were under lock and keys as the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria members in the state complied with the directives of it national body to resume suspended industrial action till further notice.


The offices and court premises at Isabo and Sagamu road in Abeokuta when visited where diserted with only the security men at the entrances.


It was observed that a letter notifying the public on the strike titled twenty one day ultimatum were however pasted on the gates entrances of the judiciary complex and Isabo courts.


The letter quoted a communique of the union signed by the national secretary of the union Comrade Adetola that the twenty one day ultimatum issued to the Federal government to implement financial autonomy for the judiciary had expired following which members of the union are to resume an earlier suspended industrial action.


The memo dated first of April this year directed members to shut down courts and departments in all the states until further notice.
Businesses around the court at Isabo was affected as clients were sent back due to non sitting at the court and non present of Judiciary staff.

Wale Oluokun