Nigerian courts have been closed since Monday when Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) embarked on an industrial action and the union has now urged its members to sustain the action until their demand for financial autonomy is granted.
Ahmed Bello, the national vice-president (north east zone) of the union, made this position known to reporters in Gombe on Tuesday.
He said this would help the union to uphold the financial autonomy of the judicial system in the country as declared by the court.
“This judgment was obtained January 2014; all efforts had been put in place to see that this strike does not take place and there is nothing we can do,” he said.
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“At least we gave the stakeholders all the necessary space for them to see that they implemented what the court has said, but nobody appealed.”
Bello said that JUSUN had obtained judgment on the interpretation of section 83, sub-section 3, as well as on section 121, sub-section 3, which declared that constitutionally, judiciary must be financially independent.
He said that the strike was not based on the issues of welfare but on absolute financial autonomy for the system.
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Bello said that they wanted the system to be free from interference to enable the judiciary perform its function fearlessly.
All courts within the country remain closed in compliance with the order of the union.
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