A Kano High Court has restrained Governor Abdullahi Ganduje from deducting salaries of Judiciary workers pending the determination of a motion on notice filed before it.
Mukhtar Rabiu Lawan, Sule Aliyu, Sani Yau, Zahran A. Fagge and others filed the case on behalf of themselves and representatives of Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, Kano State Chapter.
While the defendants include Governor of Kano State, Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Kano State, Commissioner of Finance, Head of Service, Kano State and Accountant General of Kano State.
The plaintiffs sued the defendants over deduction of their salaries in the months of November and December, 2020.
The workers are also demanding for the refund of the two months deduction.
The presiding judge, Justice Usman Mallam Na’abba in an interim order granted on Wednesday directed that the defendants, their agents or whomsoever acting on their behalfs must comply with the agreement dated December 19, 2019, entered into between Kano State Government and Joint Public Service Negotiating Council by paying the plaintiffs and JUSUN members their full salary Scale under Consolidated Judicial Staff Salary Structure.
The case has been adjourned to January 28, 2021.
