BY CHIDI NKWOPARA

THE Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, has suspended its 11-day industrial action aimed at pressing home demand for the new minimum wage, which paralyzed activities of courts in Imo State.

The State Chairman of JUSUN, Comrade Kenneth Aloka, told journalists in Owerri, after the intervention of the union’s National President, Comrade Marwa Mustapha Adamu, and other stakeholders that “since the national officers have taken a decision that is in our best interest, we have suspended the strike to allow the committee work out details of the agreement.”

National President of JUSUN, Comrade Adamu, said: “Government has realized and accepted that the placement of basic salary of judicial staff in Imo State was wrong and we have agreed on N15,718.75 as basic.”

Adamu explained that a technical committee had been set up to restructure the salary table, adding that the committee was given a week to produce a new salary table that will be submitted to the Joint Negotiating Committee for ratification and approval by the governor.