Judiciary Workers Strike Paralyses Activities In Osun

The commercialized quality betwixt the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), Osun State chapter, and the Judicial Service Commission has paralysed tribunal activities and the dispensation of justness successful the state.

LEADERSHIP checks astatine the state’s magistrate and precocious courts yesterday showed continuation of onslaught enactment declared by the enactment of Judiciary Workers past Friday.

Suspects awaiting trial, litigants, and applicants for assorted affidavits were stranded arsenic enactment remained paralysed owed to the withdrawal of services by judiciary workers crossed the state.

Recalled that JUSUN commenced caller concern enactment implicit unresolved issues concerning unit payment and delayed promotions.

LEADERSHIP had earlier reported that the Osun JUSUN chairman, Comrade Idris Adedayo Adeniran, issued a onslaught directive connected Friday, September 19, successful a communiqué released aft the union’s bonzer congress.

Osun JUSUN has alleged that the state’s Judicial Service Commission, headed by the state’s Chief Judge, Justice Oyebola Adepele Ojo, had failed to prosecute with the union, contempt erstwhile correspondence and an ultimatum was issued.

According to Osun JUSUN, successful a associated connection made disposable connected Monday and signed by its chairman, Comrade Idris Adedayo Adeniran, and Secretary, Olaniyan Akeem Olatunji, “the concern action, which takes effect from Monday, 22 September 2025, volition impact the implicit withdrawal of services by each judiciary unit crossed the state.”

Union leaders recalled that the judiciary workers had embarked connected a onslaught that lasted much than 3 months betwixt 2023 and 2024.

The onslaught was suspended pursuing a tripartite Memorandum of Agreement (MoA).

JUSUN outlined its demands, which see “expedited promotions for judiciary unit for 2024 and 2025, sponsorship of unit to be National Judicial Institute (NJI) grooming and capacity-building programmes, and improved payment measures.”

The national besides stressed that different authorities ministries and parastatals had already benefited from the government’s support of promotions and payment packages and insisted that the judiciary indispensable not beryllium near behind.