ABUJA – Mr Marwan Adamu, the National President, Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), has urged the incoming administration to restore respect for the rule of law and the Nigerian constitution.
Speaking with newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, Adamu said that JUSUN expected the new administration to bring to an end the culture of impunity and the lack of respect for the judiciary.
“Our expectations is positive because we believe that the president-elect highly respects the rule of law and that is what he is saying even by his past record.
“He was strict in terms of obeying the rule of law and most especially, the vice-president-elect is a professor of law.
“Putting them together, we believe that there will be respect for the provision of the constitution and separation of power’s to make sure the country works because where the judiciary is not working, that means the whole system is not working.
“If there is no rule of law, everybody will be on their own and we hope that the era of impunity, the era of no respect for the judiciary will be over; so we expect a new Nigeria.”
The JUSUN president noted that the strike embarked by the union in January was still ongoing in 15 states.
He said this was due to the failure of the governments, they are therefore expected to comply with the Abuja Federal High Court of January 14, 2014, on financial autonomy for the judiciary.
Adamu said the strike would have been suspended if those state governors had done the needful, “to save the sector from further ridicule by enemies of democracy’’.
He listed the affected states as Kaduna, Yobe, Taraba, Adamawa, Nasarawa and Plateau states.
Others are Benue, Abia, Enugu, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo and Cross River.
He, however, said that the union was committed to ensuring full autonomy of the Judiciary sector in all the states of the federation.
The national president said that government was a continuum and that the union was ready to dialogue with the new governor- elect, to ensure that the strike is brought to an end.

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