A suit filed by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria seeking to freeze the account of Edo State Government over alleged refusal to obey a court order asking the state to offset seven months salary arrears owed members of the Union since 2015, has been dismissed by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja
In the application by the union seeking to enforce the judgment of a Federal High Court which ruled in their favour, Justice Okon Abang held that the suit was filed in bad faith with the aim of crippling the activities of the state government a few weeks to a major election.
Justice Abang insists that the Union adopted a careless and non charlant approach to enforce the judgment secured since January 2014 having failed to take steps to enforce it only for the plaintiff to approach the court during vacation asking it to freez the entire accounts of the state without stating the exact amount allegedly owed the workers.
while dismissing the suit justice Abang emphasised that the exercise is speculative and laced with ulterior motive .
Members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria in Edo State had in 2014 joined their counterparts in the thirty-five states and the FCT to protest over the alleged failure of the state governments to grant autonomy to the Judiciary.
Source: Ait.Live