Officials of the umbrella body of judicial workers in the country, the Judicial Staff Cumulation of Nigeria, will meet on Tuesday (today) to decide whether or not to perpetuate their more than a fortnight strike.
The President of the coalescence, Mr. Marwan Adamu, attested to our correspondent via a telephone interview on Monday that the meeting of the union’s National Executive Council would hold on Tuesday (today) to take a decision on the strike.
But Adamu, who corroborated that the strike was still going on, verbalized he could not prognosticate the outcome of the meeting.
He verbalized, “The strike is still on. Today (Monday) is another work day but we are still on strike. We are meeting today. The National Executive Council of the coalescence is meeting today to review the meetings we have had with sundry stakeholders. So, we will take a decision on the strike at the meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) but I cannot prognosticate what will transpire at the meeting.”
Adamu verbally expressed JUSUN officials had met with the representatives of the state regimes and other stakeholders but no accedence was reached.
“As conventional, regime will always ask for time. If a judgment has been distributed since January and they have not appealed against the judgment and they still did not comply, I don’t understand what they are repining of. We have met with them but the meeting was deadlocked,” he verbalized.
The cumulation had on July 10 directed its members under the state judiciary nationwide to proceed on an indefinite strike due to the failure of sundry state regimes across the nation to comply with the court judgment which granted financial autonomy to the judiciary.
The strike commenced on July 11.
The amalgamation on July 17 directed its members under the federal judiciary across the federation to join the strike to further press home its demand for the state regimes to comply with the judgment.
Our correspondent was gainsaid ingression into the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which appeared desolate, on Monday. Security sentinels who were at the gate did not sanction anybody to enter the court premises because of the perpetual strike.
The Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal Court and the Federal High Court, as well as sundry state high courts have since commenced their annual vacation which would last till September.
But Adamu verbalized the vacation embarked upon by the courts would not affect the impact of the perpetual strike.
He verbally expressed, “Is it only high courts and other superior courts that constitute the judiciary? It is not only the High Courts and other superior courts that mark licit year. What about the magistrate’s courts? What about the Area Courts? What about the Sharia Courts? Are they not courts too?”
