Nigerian judges will be going on two months strike despite the two months’ period already lost to judiciary workers’ strike between April and June.
The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, John Tsoho, has explained why judges cannot waive their annual court vacation.Judges of many courts across the country have started their 2021 annual vacation with only a handful of them designated to hear urgent cases such as fundamental rights enforcement suits bordering personal liberty.
The vacation, which usually lasts two months, is expected to begin this July and usher in the new 2021/2022 legal year in September. With the judiciary perennially grappling with a huge backlog of cases which slows down the justice administration system in the country, many had expected that judges would cancel this year’s vacation having only recently resumed work after two months lost to the strike embarked upon by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria in April.
A civil society group, Access to Justice , had urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria , Tanko Muhammad, to let judges sacrifice this year’s vacation in view of the disruptions that were occasioned by the JUSUN strike and last year’s #EndSARS protests.However, Mr Tsoho in an exclusive interview with our correspondent, said the annual vacation was a statutory issue, noting that that those advocating its cancellation were calling for a breach of the law.
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