Despite calling off of the over one month strike by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike is going ahead with his threat to implement the no work no pay rule against judiciary workers in Rivers State.
To this end the Governor, Wednesday while commending the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) for calling off its two months strike in the state, directed the Accountant General of the State not to pay the workers for the first week of June in which the ‘no work no pay policy’ was in force.
The Rivers State government had warned that it would enforce the no-work no-pay policy if JUSUN in the state failed to call off the strike by 31, May 2021.
The Governor who hinged his decision not to pay JUSUN members for the first week of June on the union’s failure to heed the directive to resume work before 31, May, reiterated that Rivers state had been implementing full financial autonomy in the judiciary and that the strike was, therefore, unnecessary in the first place.
He maintained that the state government would not set up any budget implementation committee because it is unknown to law.
He said; “Rivers State government is in full support of financial autonomy of the judiciary and have been implementing same. We have stated it before that we are not going to set up any budget monitoring committee in the State because it is unnecessary.”
The Governor explained that under a federal system of government, it is only the executive arm of government, at all the tiers, that has the powers to present the annual budget to either State or National Assembly and also sign it into law.
He further asserted that Rivers people are law-abiding and will continue to insist that every action of government must be predicated on the rule of law.
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