JUSAG members resume work
Legal proceedings at the various courts in Accra commenced yesterday after members of the Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG) resumed work.
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This followed the decision by the JUSAG to call off their two-day strike that began last Wednesday.
The association declared an indefinite strike due to the failure of the government to pay their outstanding allowances from July 2014 to April 2015. Since the allowances were paid last Thursday by the government, the association decided to return to work yesterday.
Low turn-out
When the Daily Graphic visited the Supreme Court Complex and the Cocoa Affairs Court, JUSAG members were at post.
It, however, emerged that the strike had resulted in low attendance of litigants and lawyers at the courts.
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Some of the litigants who spoke to the Daily Graphic commended the government for taking the bold step to resolve the impasse.
They, however, urged the government not to drag its feet when attending to the concerns of public servants.
“Never again should the government relax for people to vent their anger before they attend to their concerns,” Mrs Ama Twum-Boadi stated.
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A businessman, Mr Kwabena Ofori, said the Judicial Service was an independent arm of the government that should be empowered to facilitate justice delivery.
“If workers of the judiciary embark on such needless strikes it is the ordinary citizens who bear the brunt of their anger and not the government,” he stated.