Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has commended the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria JUSUN, for calling off its two months strike in the State.
He has however gone tough and directed the State Accountant General not to pay judiciary workers, for the first week of June in which the ‘no work-no pay policy’ was in force.
The State government had warned earlier, that it will enforce the no-work no-pay policy if JUSUN in the State, failed to call off the strike by 31st of May 2021.
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Governor Wike, who hinged the State government’s 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 31st of May, reiterated that Rivers state has been implementing full financial autonomy of the judiciary and that the strike was therefore unnecessary in the first place.
The Governor also maintained that Rivers State government will not set up any budget implementation committee because it is unknown to law.
Governor Wike 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 signed it into law.
He further asserted that Rivers State people are law abiding and will continue to insist that every action of government must be predicated on the rule of law.
Edited by Tunde Orebiyi.
