President Muhammadu Buhari has directed his Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, and other relevant stakeholders to resolve the problem with the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, to end its strike.
This followed the Minister of Labour’s presentation of demands of various unions that have embarked on strike to the President for his intervention.
Briefing State House correspondents after meeting with President Buhari, Senator Ngige said they were working now to make health workers feel that they were being appreciated by government.
Senator Ngige said he had told the President about the fallouts from the ASUU discussion on the agreements reached in their Memorandum of Action, with a view to meet up the timeline on certain things promised.
He said that he also discussed the issue of the financial autonomy for the judiciary and the legislature with the President.
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Members of the union have downed tools since April 6 in protest against the non-implementation of the financial autonomy of the judiciary.
The union is demanding implementation of section 121(3) of the Nigerian constitution which provides that funds meant for the judiciary should be paid directly from the consolidated revenue account of the federation to the various heads of courts in the various states.
A judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja delivered in January 2014 had affirmed the constitutional provision.
President Muhammadu Buhari, in May 2020, issued the Executive Order 10 for the enforcement of the constitutional provision but the governors have kicked against it.
