The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has appealed to members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) to call off their industrial action, ChannelsTV reports.

Justice Muhammad made the appeal to the judiciary workers following a meeting with some JUSUN officials on Tuesday, his media aide Ahuraka Isah, said in a statement.

He reportedly met with some national and local officials of the union for a few minutes in his chamber at the Supreme Court in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

According to Isah, the meeting was convened to explore solutions and ways to mitigate the impact of the ongoing strike on the nation’s judiciary sector.

At the end of the meeting, the CJN asked the JUSUN officials to sheath their swords while the process of making state governments obey the Executive Order 10 and various court judgments on the autonomy of the judiciary were being implemented.

He decried that the unintended implications of the strike were better imagined than seen as they have spiral effects, including on children and the federal judiciary.

The National Treasurer of JUSUN, Jimoh Musa, who led the delegation on behalf of the union president stated that only three out of the 19 members of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the union were present at the meeting.

Thelagostimes reports that members of the union commenced a nationwide strike on Tuesday in protest against the refusal of the state governments to enforce financial autonomy in the judiciary.