By Emma Obe
Judiciary workers in Rivers State on Tuesday joined their colleagues nationwide in a strike to demand the implementation of financial autonomy for the judiciary.

Very early the workers shut the high court complex, leaving litigants and other people that had business to do at the high court stranded.

President Muhammadu Buhari had last May signed an Executive Order granting financial autonomy to the legislature and the judiciary in the states.

The executive order made it mandatory for states to include the allocations of both the legislature and the judiciary in the first-line charge of their budgets.

The order also mandated 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.

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JUSUN on April 3 issued a circular ordering the closure of courts across the country from April 6, as a measure to ensure implementation of the order.