Governors prolonging JUSUN strike – NBA

 

Admin l Tuesday, June 01, 2021

 

LAGOS, Nigeria – It is now obvious that governors in Nigeria seems not interested in judicial and parliamentary autonomy enshrined in the 1999 constitution. They seems to be OKAY in ruling autocratically without any recourse to the Nigerian constitution.

Over two weeks after JUSUN and the governors, reached an agreement which would have brought the one months old industrial action to an end, the governors are yet to fulfill their own part of the agreement that would kick off financial autonomy to the Judiciary and the Parliamentary arm of government.

The 1st Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association, John Aikpokpo-Martins, has said that there is no update on the ongoing strike of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, yet.

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Aikpokpo-Martins, who spoke with TheNigerianJudiciary, said  the governors are holding everybody to ransom by failing to comply with the agreement they had with JUSUN.

“Is governors that are holding everybody to ransom. They have gone against the agreement. The agreement was very straightforward. They are supposed to have paid last week upon receiving allocations. But when they received the allocations, they didn’t pay.” he said

According to him, the governors are saying that “we should wait for last week of June when they will get another allocation from the federal purse. But the question is: if they entered into an agreement whose implementation was to start this May, what guarantee do we now have that even in that June, they will also not renege?”

He said he met with the executives of JUSUN and conveyed his displeasure over the opening of Supreme Court and other courts for judgments to be delivered or cases to be conducted. He noted that the JUSUN executives denied been aware of it not until when they heard it from people and went to the Supreme Court) to confirm it themselves. They said they have changed their men stationed at the court. They assured that it will not repeat itself again.