Pecohub The Enugu State Branch of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria has announced the resumption of its suspended industrial action over the non-payment of the Consolidated Judiciary Salary Structure and other salary arrears.
JUSUN has, across multiple states, persistently agitated for what they say is the non-implementation of the financial autonomy afforded to state judiciaries under Section 121(3) of the 1999 Constitution.
This constitutional provision requires that the salaries, allowances and pensions of judicial officers and staff be paid from the state judiciary’s own consolidated funds, not via state civil service or executive channels.
In a circular dated September 12, signed by JUSUN’s chairman and secretary, Comrade Sampson Ifedimma and Comrade Onyia Jonas, respectively, which our correspondent obtained on Sunday, the union directed all judiciary workers in Enugu State to withdraw their services effective 6:00 pm on Friday, September 12, 2025.
“We are not on strike for luxury or frivolities. We are on strike because while the Executive Governor of Enugu State has courageously implemented the Financial Autonomy of the Judiciary in the state, workers’ welfare has been neglected and their sacrifices totally ignored, and we know that silence in the face of injustice is betrayal,” the union stated.
The strike, the union stated, aims to compel the Chief Judge and President of the Customary Court of Appeal to; “Commence Immediate Payment of the Consolidated Judiciary Salary Structure to all judiciary staff in Enugu State, pending since 2018; payment of four months’ salary arrears owed to staff employed in the High Court on October 1, 2022, and seven months’ arrears owed to staff employed in the Customary Court of Appeal on the same date.”
The union expressed disappointment over Governor Mbah’s announcement of full implementation of judicial financial autonomy in Enugu State, noting that this autonomy has not been operationalised for the benefit of judiciary staff.
