Judiciary workers to proceed on strike if 19th November talks collapse

A court had ruled that state judiciaries should receive their funding direct from the Federation Allocation instead of it going through the state governments but that order has not been implemented months later.A meeting at the instance of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, was adjourned to 19th November, to allow […]

A court had ruled that state judiciaries should receive their funding direct from the Federation Allocation instead of it going through the state governments but that order has not been implemented months later.
A meeting at the instance of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, was adjourned to 19th November, to allow Chairman of the Federation Allocation Account Committee (FAAC) and Minister of State, Finance, to peruse the document submitted by the union.
JUSUN President, Comrade Marwan Mustapha Adamu, who spoke with reporters in Abuja weekend, said the union accepted the adjournment of the meeting with a caveat that the issue must be resolved on that day.
Adamu added the union had already fixed an emergency meeting of its National Executive Council (NEC) for 20th November in order to take decision to be determined by the outcome of its meeting with government.
He lamented that a court order is being neglected by those who swore to uphold the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria simply because it does not go down well with them.
“We fixed our NEC meeting for 20th November to discuss and deliberate on the outcome of the 19th November meeting. In other words, the 19th meeting is going to be the final meeting between the government and the union.
“If the outcome of the meeting is positive, fine, but if it is not okay, we have an instrument to take decision on the matter at the NEC level.”