JUSUN: Wike Vows To Enforce ‘No Work, No Pay’ Policy

The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has commended the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) for calling off its two months’ strike in the state.
He has, however, directed the Accountant General of the state not to pay Judiciary workers for the first week of June in which the ‘no work no pay’ policy was in force.
It would be recalled that the state government had warned that it would enforce the ‘no work no pay’ policy, if JUSUN in the state fails to call off the strike by May 31.
Wike, who hinged the state government’s decision not to pay JUSUN members for the first week of June on the union’s failure to heed the directive to resume work before May 31, reiterated that the Rivers State Government has been implementing full financial autonomy of the Judiciary, adding that the strike was, therefore, unnecessary in the first place.
The governor maintained that Rivers State Government would not set up any budget implementation committee because it was unknown to law.
“Rivers State Government is in full support of financial autonomy of the Judiciary, and has been implementing same. We have stated it before that we are not going to set up any budget monitoring committee in the state because it is unnecessary”, he added.
Wike explained that under a federal system of government, it was only the Executive arm of government, at all tiers, that has the powers to present the annual budget to either state or National Assembly, and also sign it into law.
He further asserted that Rivers State people were law abiding, and would continue to insist that every action of government must be predicated on the rule of law.