JUSUN Strike: Inability of FG, Governors to harmonise their positions hinders talks with Judicial workers

Following the inability of the Federal Government and State Governors to meet to harmonise their positions, efforts to resolve the lingering industrial action by judicial and legislative workers over their agitations for financial autonomy for state judiciaries and legislatures were hindered yesterday. 

A source revealed that the meeting of Federal Government officials and representatives of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) will reconvene today to harmonise positions on the implementation of financial autonomy for states’ legislatures and judiciaries. Reports say that the disagreement hindered yesterday’s bid to resolve the judicial and parliamentary workers’ strike as the government team and the striking workers could not meet as scheduled because of the differing positions of the Federal Government and the Governors. While the Federal Government’s position is that the Governors should transfer the statutory allocations of the other two arms of government to them directly, the state chief executives insisted on making some deductions before remitting the money. The two parties will today decide on the appropriate deductions to be made from the statutory allocations of the states’ judiciaries and legislatures before remittance to them.

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