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Osun Adamant On Judicial Workers’ Demand

Nov 16th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Tits Bits

•Aims To Frustrate Tribunal Sittings

FOR those awaiting different courts’ pronouncements on their cases, especially those remanded in prison custody for one offence or the other, the road to getting justice to put an end to their ordeal seems to be getting farther with the on-going strike embarked upon by the judicial workers in the state.

In its usual tradition of playing politics with everything, including issues that are paramount to the welfare of the citizenry, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led administration under Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola in Osun State had decided not to succumb to the demands of the striking workers of the judiciary arm of government in the state.

Recent findings of series of investigations conducted by OSUN DEFENDER have revealed that chieftains of the ruling party in the state recently met at the party secretariat in Osogbo, the state capital on the need to prevail on the state governor, who is also the party leader, not to yield to any of the striking workers’ demands.

According to a source at the meeting, the PDP chieftains had premised their reasons on the need to utilize the strike as an instrument of ensuring the indefinite postponement of the retrial tribunal sittings.

The source revealed that it was in the opinion of the party chieftains that should the governor turns down the demands of the striking judicial workers, the tribunal would be left with no other choice than to adjourn its sittings indefinitely till when the strike action would be called off.

To this end, a delegation comprising party leaders was dispatched to meet with Oyinlola with a view to prevailing on the governor not to yield to the striking workers’ demands until such a time the morale of members and supporters of opposition political parties would be waning.

The ruling party chieftains were also gathered to have reasoned that should the plans to delay the governor’s approval of the striking workers’ demands work out, the party’s plan to hold on to power indefinitely would have been achieved to a greater extent.

At the meeting with the governor, the party leaders in the state were reported to have stated their mission fully with Oyinlola reportedly supporting the idea fully and promising to hold the striking workers on a tight-leash by not acceding to their demands with a view to ensuring indefinite suspension of the tribunal sittings.

It would be recalled that the state judicial workers, like their counterparts across the country, have embarked on the on-going industrial action to press home their demands for improved condition of service, while the Federal Government had mandated each of the states across the country to individually negotiate with their workers.

The refusal of the state judicial workers to resume for work as a result of Osun State government refusal to yield to their demands had resulted into untold hardship for many whose cases are pending in various courts in the state in addition to the inability of the retrial tribunal to sit on its adjourned date.

By SOLA JACOBS

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