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  • Updated: June 10, 2021

Autonomy: JUSUN Called Off Strike Too Early Without Achieving Aims – NBA Ikeja

Autonomy: JUSUN Called Off Strike Too Early Without Achievin

The Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has said that the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) called off its strike too early without achieving its aim of financial autonomy of the judiciary.

The 64-day-old strike, the longest industrial action in the Nigerian judiciary was suspended on Wednesday, following a meeting between officials of the union and the National Judicial Council (NJC) led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Muhammad.

Speaking to the press on Thursday, Bartholomew Aguegbodo, the Chairman of the Ikeja branch of the NBA described the suspension of the industrial action by JUSUN as “not worth it”.

“Having sustained the strike for over two months, the question JUSUN should have asked when considering calling off the strike is what have we achieved?

“The strike meted untold hardships on lawyers and litigants alike. If you’re fighting a noble cause and you cannot sustain it, it is not worth commencing it.

“The period the strike was on was fruitless. JUSUN says it is suspending the strike and is giving the government three months to implement terms, we know after three months we won’t be able to call up another action.

“The calling off of the strike is quite unfortunate, nothing has been achieved so far and it is going to remain business as usual,” he said.

The NBA Ikeja Chairman noted that all over the world, there is no struggle that does not have a price and that the struggle for financial autonomy of the judiciary was not solely for JUSUN and the NBA.

Aguegbodo said that the corporate world also suffered from the non-financial autonomy of the judiciary.

He said that a more effective method would have been a joint action between JUSUN and other labour unions to press home the demands for judicial financial autonomy to the state governors.

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