The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria’s Ondo State branch has started an industrial action because the state administration is allegedly not carrying out the agreement that was struck with the union.
Following the expiration of the seven-day ultimatum given to the government on June 4, 2025, and the government’s failure to respond to the reneged portions of the agreements outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding signed on May 20, 2015, the union said it decided to go on strike. The union’s chairman and secretary, Afolabi Oluwafemi and Alade Kehinde, respectively, jointly released a statement that included this information.
The statement claimed that Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa was required to carry out the Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to the state government’s delivery of monies to the state judiciary in accordance with judicial financial autonomy.
This decision comes after the seven-day ultimatum given to the Ondo State administration on June 4, 2025, the statement said. “We felt that the government was not doing enough to address the aspects of the agreements that were broken in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that was signed on May 20, 2015.”
This Memorandum of Understanding details how the state government will disburse monies to the Ondo State judiciary in accordance with the financial autonomy of the court. Because of this, we are directing all of our members to refrain from performing their duties beginning today, June 13, 2025, and continuing until further directive is issued, and to carefully adhere to the standards for industrial action.
