JUSAG calls off intended strike ahead of SC verdict

The Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSSAG) has called off their intended strike ahead of the Supreme Court verdict on the Election Petition case.

The Association threatened a nationwide strike effective August 27, 2013, just two days away from the election petition judgment day at the Supreme Court.

But the President of JUSAG, Mr. Francis Brakwah, in an interview with XYZ News, stated that they have decided to call off the strike because government has settled 95 percent of their demands.

The group, demanded allowances for maintenance, fuel, overtime and transfer allowances.

Mr. Brakwah added that government has assured that the remaining 5 percent of their demands would be settled before Thursday.

Ghana’s apex Court is expected to pronounce judgment on the election petition case which the Court has been hearing for the past eight months.

The petitioners – 2012 presidential candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo; his running mate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and the party’s national Chairman, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey – say the polls were fraught with irregularities which robbed the first petitioner of victory.

The respondents are President John Mahama, the Electoral Commission and the governing National Democratic Congress.

A strike by JUSSAG could throw spanners in the spokes of the wheels of justice by the Supreme Court.