Ogun State Judiciary Workers Call Off Strike After Over A Month Of Needless Court Closure.

Ogun State Judiciary Workers Call Off Strike After Over A Month Of needless Court Closure. 

The judiciary workers of Ogun State has called off two months strike that should not have happened in the first place.

The judiciary workers in the state had downed their tools since 11th of August over alleged short-payment of their salaries by the state government.

“We will hold Dapo Abiodun responsible for the reckless human rights violations that occurred during courts closure,” Barrister Festus says.

Judicial workers under the auspices of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) Ogun State Chapter have suspended their over one-month-old industrial action.

The group embarked on the strike over the alleged reduction of their basic salaries.

Emerging from a meeting of the union with government officials in Abeokuta on Thursday, Tajudeen Edun, the state chairman of JUSUN directed their members to return to their duty posts. Those in attendance at the meeting include Tokunbo Talabi, the secretary to the state government, and Selimot Ottun, the head of service.

“I want to say that the industrial action that commenced on the 11th of August 2021, is now suspended. I want to call on all judiciary workers in Ogun State to prepare themselves to resume fully,” Mr Edun told journalists after the meeting.

“There were series of meetings before the issue was finally resolved today. There was an agitation from the cut of our salary. We have reached an agreement with the government to resume work after striking for about two months. The State government has accepted our demands and we also agreed to what government asked from us”.

“We agreed on some areas that there are issues between us. We were asking that reductions from our basic salary be restored, and they have restored it,” he added.

According to the workers, there had been a shortage in their salaries since October last year.

“It’s been a long time that we have been on the issue and there were series of meetings, that is why we asked all members of the judiciary staff to sit at home until our request is granted,” Mr Edun had said in an earlier interview.

Speaking on Thursday after a meeting held at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, between officials of the State Government led by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Tokunbo Talabi, supported by the Head of Service, Mrs. Selimot Ottun, the State Chairman of the Union, Tajudeen Edun, announced that the strike which started on August 11, 2021, has been suspended.

According to Edun, “I want to say that the industrial action that commenced on the 11 of August, 2021, is now suspended. I want to call on all judiciary workers in Ogun State to prepare themselves and resume fully”.

Briefing newsmen on the outcome of the meeting, the State Chairman said, “there was series of meetings before the issue was finally resolved today. There was an agitation from the cut of our salary. We have reached an agreement with the government to resume work after striking for more than two months. The State Government has accepted our demands and we also agreed to what government asked from us”.

While appreciating government’s efforts at resolving the matter amicably, the JUSUN leader, stated that its members have resolved to work with the present administration to take the state to greater heights.