Industrial Court Orders Nigerian Bank of Industry To Reinstate Assistant General Manager, Ekedayen, Asked To Resign, Pay His Salaries, Other EntitlementsThe court in its ruling set aside the termination letter issued by BoI to Ekedayen and ordered the bank to reinstate Ekedayen"forthwith and his salaries and allowances paid from the date of the purported terminationThe Bank of Industry has been ordered to immediately reinstate its Assistant General Manager, Sonny Ekedayen, who was relieved...
"Failure to pay same will be treated as contempt of this Honorable Court's Order and will attract a 10 percent per annum interest until it is fully liquidated." He told the court that he was 50 years old and had only served for 12 years in BoI as of November 20, 2015, when the 1st defendant, Olaoluwa, without just cause or lawful authority ordered him to resign his employment with BoI or proceed on voluntary early retirement therefrom, on the basis that he could no longer work with the Claimant.
According to an Amended Statement of Facts dated and filed on May 30, 2019, the Claimant sought the following reliefs jointly and severally, against the 1st and 2nd Defendants: "An order of perpetual injunction restraining the 1st Defendant from compelling and/or forcing the Claimant to either resign from his employment with the 2nd Defendant or proceed on voluntary early retirement therefrom
The judge said,"I hereby hold that the Claimant's first relief succeeds. The 1st Defendant is not in any position to direct or force the resignation of any staff, if they must do so, it should be of their own volition, or the company's internal mechanism has to come into play, this relief is granted accordingly."