By Moses John
Abuja
Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) has put on hold the plan to resume its suspended industrial action by October 2, 2014, to press home their demand for the implementation of the Federal High Court judgement on the financial autonomy for the judiciary.
National President of JUSUN, Comrade Marwan Mustapha Adamu, who disclosed this in Abuja, also condemned the attacked on a judge in Ekiti state by thugs, calling on the authorities to probe the matter with a view to bringing to book those behind the incident.
He said the union would soon a take decision on the matter which, he added, should not put the judiciary in a bad light before the international community.
He said the decision of the union to shelve the planned strike was premised on the ongoing discussions with stakeholders to resolve the impasse.
Adamu, however, described as “unfortunate” the statement credited to the governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Fashola, that judiciary autonomy was not realistic.
He said: “These comments are regarded as unfortunate and embarrassing, coming from a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who should be at fore in protecting the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“And the judiciary being his primary constituency as lawyer, it is rather absorbed for Chief Fashola, now governor, to sit in his Government House (chambers) and said the workability of the Constitution of Nigeria which he sword to uphold and, the obedience, compliance with or and implementation of an order/judgement of a competent court is not realistic and/or unrealistic.
“This same comment goes for other lawyer-governors who would have ordinarily obeyed the court judgement and the constitution of the country to set a precedent other governors who are not lawyers.”
