Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano says his government has no problem granting financial autonomy to the judiciary in the state.

Mr Ganduje made the remarks during an interactive session with journalists as part of the event to mark Democracy Day in Kano on Monday.

“Judiciary is independent. Here in Kano, we have no problem with the financial autonomy of the judiciary. We have been paying the judiciary what they are supposed to be paid.

“They acknowledge that we are doing what we are expected to do,” the governor said.

The state government stated that it paid more than N100 million as medical allowances to high court judges and over N20 million as allowances for magistrates and Sharia court judges.

It said it also paid N20 million as furniture allowance and N46 million monthly as an overhead cost to the judiciary.

“On independence legislature for local governments, we have conducted free and fair councils election. We always give them what they are supposed to get from the federal government.

“Sometimes we do joint projects, so they are independent too,” Mr Ganduje said.

The Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria(JUSUN) had on April 6 embarked on strike to press their demand for implementation of financial autonomy for the judicial arm of government.

The union, however, called off the strike on June 9.

(NAN)