By Jimitota Onoyume,

Port Harcourt

NATIONAL body of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN,   has suspended the eight months old strike of the Rivers State chapter of the body. National Publicity Secretary of the body, Comrade Kayode Igbarago, who announced the suspension yesterday in Port Harcourt, said members of the local chapter should resume work tomorrow.

Igbarago also appealed   that members of the union in the state should not be victimized in any way. He explained that the decision to call off the strike was taken at a meeting of the National Executive Council of JUSUN on January 26 in Abuja.

“The national body has after careful investigation been convinced that the State Branch has not compromised the struggle in any form. Furthermore, after careful and exhaustive deliberation, NEC considered the assurances and commitments made by various security agencies in the provision of adequate security in and around the court premises in Rivers State, which was at a point in time a target of violent at. These attacks had sent unimaginable fear and tension to the minds of the court workers and other court users”, the JUSUN scribe said..

It would be recalled that the state chapter proceeded on an indefinite strike action July 9 last year due to crisis in the judiciary over appointment of a substantive Chief Judge for the state.