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UPDATED: JUSUN suspends two-month-old strike
The union cites the intervention of the National Judicial Council (NJC) and others in reaching the decision to suspend the strike. 4 min read
The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (NJC) on Wednesday suspended its nationwide strike which paralysed the Nigerian courts for over two months.
Members of the union had embarked on the strike on April 6 to press home their demand for the financial autonomy of the judiciary.
The 64-day-old strike is the most protracted paralysing industrial action the Nigerian judiciary has ever seen. The closest to it which members of the union embarked on in January 2015 for the same reason only lasted for two weeks.
They carried protest banners, with inscriptions such as, “Yahaya Bello, Where is Emmanuel Larry?.”
The two protesters, who were arrested, molested by thugs sponsored by the Kogi State Government and detained by the police, had also fallen critically sick.
SaharaReporters learnt that the two protesters had also been denied medical treatment.
“They are seriously ill and not getting treatment. The state government is hell bent on keeping them, perhaps until they die in custody?” a source had stated.
A month ago, global human rights organisation, Amnesty International, had demanded the unconditional release of the two Buhari-must-go protesters, adding that the protesters only crime was that they were “peacefully protesting against corruption and distributing posters that were perceived to be critical of the President.”