Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said the state
government will effect the ‘no-work-no-pay’ policy on judiciary workers for the
first week of june.
This announcement is coming shortly after the Judiciary
Staff Union of Nigeria called off its nationwide strike which lasted for two
months.
Recall that Governor Wike had last week threatened to
implement the policy on the Rivers State judiciary workers for refusing to
resume work, after he claimed that his administration had already commenced the
implementation of the financial autonomy for the judiciary arm of government.
The National leadership of JUSUN, however, announced the
suspension of the strike on Wednesday after a meeting with the Chief Justice of
Nigeria.
While commending the JUSUN members for suspending the
industrial action, the Governor said he had directed the state “Accountant General
of the State not to pay judiciary workers for the first week of June in which
the ‘no-work-no-pay policy’ was in force.”
In a statement issued by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri,
Governor Wike said the action followed the refusal of the judiciary workers to
comply with his directive for them to call off the action before the beginning
of June.
“Rivers State government is in full support of financial
autonomy of the judiciary and has been implementing same. We have stated before
that we are not going to set up any budget monitoring committee in the State
because it is unnecessary” the statement read in part.
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