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Judiciary Autonomy: Wike rejects governors’ forum agreement with JUSUN
“Governors’ Forum is an association of governors to share ideas and not to sign agreements on behalf of state governments.”
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Whatever agreement the Nigeria Governors’ Forum has entered into with the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) is not binding on Rivers State, Governor Nyesom Wike has said.
Mr Wike said this on Saturday in Port Harcourt during the inauguration of the Senate Building of the Rivers State University and the laying of the foundation stone for the construction of the faculty building for the College of Medical Sciences.
“Governors’ Forum is not a government. It is an association of governors to share ideas and not to sign agreements on behalf of state governments,” Mr Wike said, according to a statement from the governor’s media aide, Kelvin Ebiri.
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JUSUN had, on April 6, embarked on a nationwide strike in protest of the non-implementation of financial autonomy for the judiciary.
There is also an ongoing strike by parliamentary workers who are seeking financial autonomy for state legislatures.
Addressing journalists at the end of a closed-door meeting between the government and members of both unions on Friday in Abuja, Ngige said all parties were able to reach a positive agreement.
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Ngige said Kayode Fayemi and Aminu Tambuwal, governors of Ekiti and Sokoto, respectively, have on behalf of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, appended their signatures on the agreement which was reached on May 20.
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