Registrar Chased Away n Judges Locked Out Of High Court

The strike action embarked upon by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, took a disturbing turn yesterday as the striking union officials chased away the Chief Registrar to

the Lagos State High Court and locked out Judges from their courtrooms.

Inquest suffers setback

The strike action also took its toll on the on-going coroner’s inquest investigating the causes of multiple death at the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, guest house last year.

The work to rule by the striking workers that commenced on Monday, according to them was to fight for the independence of the judiciary.

This is the seventh time that the workers, will embark on such action but has yielded no result except promises from the authorities.

In some instances, there were differences over such actions among the workers in the state judiciary and the Federal judiciary, where the latter refused to join the action until they were compelled by JUSUN officials.

As at yesterday, some of the officials of the JUSUN, who were said to have come from Abuja to supervise the action locked all gates into the court premises with keys and chains.

The height of their action, was when the workers vehemently refused the plea to enter the premises by the state High Court Chief Registrar, Mr Olugbenga Ogundare, accompanied by the High Court Internal Auditor and Director of Finance and Administration who arrived the premises at about 9.05 am.