After 21 days of no work, the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) on Friday suspended its strike due to the intervention of relevant stakeholders, especially that of the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu.
The truce was however reached after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed at the end of a meeting between the Minister and JUSUN leadership in Abuja on Friday.
The M0U reads: “The meeting noted that the issues in dispute are constitutional matters in which judgments had been given in a suit No FHC/ABJ/CS/667/13 between JUSUN and the National Judicial Council (NJC).
“The Federal Government was not in breach of the constitution, and therefore, the judgement cannot be enforced against it.
“The state governments are obliged to respect the provision of the 1999 Constitution as amended and comply with the aforementioned judgement of the court,’’.
It equally directed the Technical Committee to work out modalities for the implementation of the judgement dated Jan. 13, 2014.
It further stressed that the committee should work out best ways for the effective implementation of the MoU from Friday Aug. 1 to Monday, Aug. 4.
It stated clearly added that no JUSUN member shall be victimised for being part of the strike.
The Nigeria Labour Congress President, Abdulwaheed Omar; JUSUN President, Mustapha Adamu; Director, National Judicial Council, Eugene Odukwu; and Chairman, Accountant General’s Forum, Mr Udo Isobara signed the MoU. Others who also appended their signatures were Mr Adetokunbo Kayode, Nigerian Bar Association; Bola Odugbesan, Ministry of Justice; Mrs Chinedu Dike, Ministry of Labour, and Abdullahi Zubair, Office of the Accountant General of the Federation.
DailyPost recalls that JUSUN embarked on strike since July 11 due to state governments’ failure to implement the subsisting judgement delivered by the Federal High Court seven months ago.
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