Judicial workers in Nigeria, today, shut down all the courts across the country in compliance with the industrial action their union embarked on.
Our correspondents in the states of the federation reported that judges who arrived at the courts could not carry out their jobs just as litigants and lawyers were prevented from gaining access into the court premises.
The judges had to return home as officials of JUSUN barricaded the entrances to the courts.
It was reported that in a few courts where the registrars were found, the judges and other workers were absent.
The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), which had been having a running battle with the Federal Government over issues that bother on their welfare, had announced an indefinite strike beginning today, to protest the non-implementation of the 13th January, 2014 judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja.
The union said it would only allow its members return to work after its demands are met, especially as the stakeholders had flouted the Memorandum of Understanding in which it was agreed that the financial autonomy of the judiciary as ordered by the court would be given effect from December 2014. [myad]
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