In compliance with Court order, Fintiri to reinstate workers sacked in 2014

In compliance with the order of the National Industrial court, Gov. Fintiri of Adamawa state has directed the commissioner for education to immediately reinstate batch D1 he  reportedly order their sack in 2014 when he was the acting governor.

The workers numbering over 3000 has sued the Adamawa state government over the purported premature retirement/ sack in 2014.

Delivering the judgment, the National industrial court declared that the letter sacking the workers in 2014 has no force of law and is therefore illegal, unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect whatsoever being in flagrant violation of the civil service rules.

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

The judge also declared: “The premature  sacking of the workers in 2014 by the Adamawa state Government without conducting any investigation, without giving them an opportunity to defend themselves and without complying with the condition precedent for sacking is contrary to Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution and therefore illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional and null and void.”

The court, therefore, ordered the workers immediate to their duty post without any loss to seniority, salaries, position and other emoluments.

The judge orders the state Government to compute and pay within 30 days all salaries, allowances and other emoluments due to the workers from June 2014 to the judgment date.

The case centred on the illegal and unlawful sacking about 3000 workers in 2014 when Fintiri was the acting governor.

The Finder report how the court orders garnishee order on the account of the state government on failure to obey the judgement of the court.