Strike: Why I can’t beg governors over judiciary’s financial autonomy – CJN

Judiciary Workers’

The CJN says calling the governors to give effect to the financial autonomy status of the judiciary in their domains will amount to asking them for a favour for which they may ask him to repay.


The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad, has spoken on the crippling nationwide strike embarked upon by judiciary workers on Tuesday.

The leadership of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) had called for the strike to demand financial autonomy for the Nigerian judiciary at all levels.

A statement by the CJN’s media aide, Ahuraka Isah, said Mr Muhammad met with a delegation of the leadership of JUSUN at his Supreme Court chambers in Abuja where he descried the negative impact of the strike on court users on Tuesday.

The statement quoted the CJN as saying that would have ordinarily called each of the 36 state governors to give effect to the financial autonomy status of state judiciary, but for the fact that such could amount to asking for favour from them.

He said, “The unintended sufferers of this strike are better imagined. It has spiral effects, including on our children and on the federal judiciary, which is a lesser culprit.

“Ordinarily, I would say let me talk to the individual 36 state governors, which amounts to asking for their favours, but some of them would ask me to do 10 favours in return.

“This is why as a judge I am prohibited from asking for favours.”

The National Treasurer of JUSUN, Jimoh Musa, who led the union’s delegation on behalf of its President, Marwan Adamu, said only three out of the 19 members of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the union was present.

He said the union’s president, Mr Adamu, had an accident on his way to the meeting with the CJN.

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