Court reinstates 32 Ekiti varsity Employees

Court reinstates 32 Ekiti varsity Employees
The direction December 5, 2019, disengaged over 900 of its workforce for alleged certification forgery, irregular appointment, overage, along with other allegations which contravened its terms of support.

In a lawsuit, 32 technologists of the researchers dragged EKSU, EKSU Governing Council, also EKSU Vice-Chancellor (first to third party defendants) into the Industrial Court to seek treatment.

They requested the court to find out whether their employment using EKSU loved statutory defense and if their disengagement was compatible with their status of occupation, which appreciated the statute.

Amongst others, they sought a declaration of this court their disengagement as employees of EKSU” from the way that it was done was criminal, irregular, illegal and so null and void and of no effect.

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“An arrangement for its restoration and reinstatement of their claimants for their own offices without reduction of wages, promotions, emoluments, and other allowances for these as employees of their initial respondent (EKSU).

“Payment of the claimants’ three months wages, emoluments, and other allowances owed them ahead of the purported and criminal disengagement.”

But counselor to the college prayed the court to not grant the petition of their 32 technologists, stating they’d been able to establish from the case which their appointments with EKSU were unlawfully determined.

After listening to this entry of the claimants’ and defence’s adviser, the presiding judge, Justice K. D. Damulak, announced the judgment of the employees’ appointment as”unlawful, null and void.”