The ongoing indefinite strike embark by Judicial workers in Ondo State due to the inability of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to approve their financial autonomy has crippled the justice system in the state.
The indefinite strike comprises the Coalition of Magistrates, Presidents of Grade ‘A’ Customary Courts, and the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, Ondo State chapter.
The workers are also accusing the government of paying no attention to the plight of workers, lamenting poor welfare.
One of the aggrieved judiciary workers, Mr Jamiu Bamidele, made the remark in a statement on Tuesday.
Bamidele, in the statement on Tuesday, stated that hundreds of citizens are now languishing in “overcrowded police cells and correctional facilities in Akure and beyond” due to the ongoing strike.
According to him, the citizens have been denied the “right to arraignment or bail.”
“This is not due process, it is state-sanctioned incarceration where the innocent are buried alive in a system that has ceased to breathe,” he added.
Bamidele accused the Attorney General of the state, Kayode Ajulo, SAN, and the Commissioner for Finance, Mrs Omowumi Isaac, of strangling the judicial arm of government.
He accused the commissioner of being used by the Executive to “dodge responsibilities, rescind approvals, delay files, alter established disbursement protocols, and create an illusion of penury by the executive.
“It is an act of institutional vandalism by the Executive branch. By starving the third arm of the government of its constitutionally mandated financial autonomy, the state government has effectively declared war on its own citizens,” Bamidele added.
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