Court orders Adamawa state government to pay over 3000 workers sacked in 2014 their entitlement

The National Industrial Court, on Friday issued a garnishee order on bank accounts of Adamawa state government, to pay over 3000 workers sacked in 2014.

Garnishee proceeding is a judicial enforcement of monetary judgment whereby money belonging to a judgment debtor, in the possession of a third party, usually a bank, is seized by a judgment creditor.

The motion which sought to garnishee the Zenith Bank account of Adamawa state government was granted by the industrial court after a prolong battle with the state government in court.

The judge, having granted the application, adjourned the matter to enable the two banks to show because why the money of the judgment debtor with them should not be used to pay the judgment creditor.

The Finder reports that the same court on have delivered judgment in favour of Made ordering Adamawa to pay over 3000 workers arrears sacked in 2014 of their salaries within 60 days.

According to one of the sacked workers, over 900 hundred million belonging to the state government in one of the new generation bank is being confiscated due to the garnishee order.

Effort made by this news medium to get the reaction of Mr. Solomon Kummanger, director general, media to Gov. Fintiri was unsuccessful as calls placed to his known mobile number was not responded to before press time.