After seven days of boycotting government cases in court in protest against what they described as poor work conditions, Ebonyi State lawyers under the aegis of Law Officers Association of Nigeria, LOAN, have suspended the strike action.
The Chairman of the association, Ndubuisi Ogbuinya, confirmed this development to reporters in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital.
Ogbuinya said the decision to suspend the action was not informed by any clear common ground between the body and the state government, but followed the intervention of lawyers’ parent body, the Nigerian Bar Association who he said was on serious talking terms with the government.
He, however, noted with surprise a letter allegedly received last Friday indicating that all the law officers have been slammed with suspension from the State Ministry of Justice.
Recall that the law officers had embarked on the protest last week Tuesday, accusing the state government of among other things, excluding them from the 2020 new minimum wage, and refusal to refund pocket expenses they incurred in the course of prosecuting government matters.
But the state government through the Attorney General, Cletus Ofoke, rebuffed the law officers, claiming that their demands were misplaced.
