Industrial Court Orders Immigration, Others To Reinstate Dismissed Personnel
The National Industrial Court has ordered the reinstatement of one Daniel Makolo to his former employer before he was summarily dismissed from service.
The justice further directed the Nigerian Immigration Service, which is the 4th defendant in the suit, to pay him all his outstanding salaries, emoluments, allowances and other entitlements.
The suit marked; NICN/ABJ/337/2020 was filed by the claimant on November 18, 2020, following his dismissal from the NIS and the failure of his employers to allow him to participate in several promotional exercises for many years.
Cited as 1st to 6th defendants in the suit are the Minister of Interior, Chairman, Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Service Board; the board, Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Service Board; the Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service; Nigeria Immigration Service; the Head of Service of the Federation; the Attorney General of the Federation, Federal Republic of Nigeria
The claimant said barring the act of the defendants, “he ought to at least be of the rank of the Deputy Comptroller General Immigration in the service of the defendants on consolidated salary of DCG of Nigeria Immigration Service.”
Aggrieved by the treatment meted out to him by the defendants, the claimant through his counsel, David I. Adegbe, approached the National Industrial Court for relief.
Among the others, Makola sought the following reliefs: “A declaration that the suspension of the claimant from the service of the defendants is unlawful, wrongful, gruel, malicious, unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect whatsoever.
“A declaration that the dismissal of the claimant from the service of the defendant is unlawful, wrongful, cruel, malicious, unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect whatsoever.
“A declaration that the claimant is entitled to some level of care and support from the defendant in line with international level best practices when in poor health.
“An order reinstating the claimant to the employment of the defendant without loss of rank, position or privileges as his contemporaries still in the defendant’s service are now deputy comptroller Generals of the 4th defendant.
“An order placing the claimant on the rank of Deputy Comptroller General of 4th defendant with effect from 17th October 2016
“An order directing the defendants to forthwith pay the claimant all his outstanding salaries, emolument, allowances and other entitlements due to him from November 7, 2017, when his salary was stopped unlawfully till when the claimant is fully reinstated to the employment of the defendants without loss of rank, position and privileges as his contemporaries still in the service.
