The judiciary arm of the government will soon suffer from the paralysis that has dogged most government institutions and parastatals, as the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) is to embark on an indefinite strike from tomorrow.
JUSUN on Thursday, directed its members across Nigeria to close down all courts in the country with the exception of Federal court for failure to implement the Judgment of Federal High Court on the financial autonomy of the state judiciaries from Friday July 11.
A communiqué issued at the end of an emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee of the union, the union however urged Federal judiciary workers to be at alert pending a directive of the National secretariat to join in solidarity strike.
The communiqué which was jointly signed by the National President of the union, comrade Marwan Mustapha Adamu and the General Secretary, Comrade Isaiah Adetola also disclosed that the national secretariat of the union has also taken over the industrial dispute embark by the River state JUSUN recently over leadership crisis.
The group described as“unfair” for both the National Judicial Council (NJC) and the Rivers State Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to issued two separate directives for and against returning to work, adding that the workers cannot serve two masters.
“The security and protection of our members is no longer guarantee in this leadership crisis that engulfed the Rivers State Judiciary in the last one year.
“After the exhaustive deliberation on the refusal/failure of state Governments to respect/implement the Federal High Court Abuja, judgment /orders in respect of financial autonomy of state Judiciaries as well as failure of stakeholders to abide by the decision to set up a technical implementation committee of the FAAC meeting of 17th June 2014, it is resolved by NEC as follows.
“That all Judiciary staff at state level nationwide should proceed on an indefinite strike with effect from Friday 11th July 2014.
“That the National secretariat of the union shall notify Federal Judiciary workers to join the action as events unfolds,” the communiqué noted.