Members of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA protested against the non-implementation of financial autonomy for the judiciary in Abuja on Monday.
This is coming after members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria commenced a nationwide protest.
Some of the judicial workers converged on the gate of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, chanting solidarity songs.
NewsSpecng gathered that the National President of NBA, Olumide Akpata, had asked all state branches to stage a protest on Monday.
JUSUN began an indefinite strike on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, over continued delay to implement financial autonomy for the judiciary.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on May 22, 2020, signed Executive Order 10 for the enforcement of the financial autonomy status granted to state legislature and judiciary in the Nigerian Constitution.
Executive Order 10 of 2020, made it mandatory for all states to include the allocations of both the legislature and the judiciary in the first-line charge of their budgets.
The order also mandates the accountant-general of the federation to deduct from source amount due to the state legislatures and judiciaries from the monthly allocation to each state, for states that refuse to grant such autonomy.
