Court decides fate of 6 disengaged workers Oct. 31
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Judgment
By Doris Esa
Abuja, Oct.20, 2016 (NAN) The National Industrial Court will deliver judgment in a suit filed by Innocent Igila and five dismissed workers of China Civil Engineering Construction Company Nigeria Limited on Oct.31.
Other claimants were; Ojo Adeyemi, John Ukwueze, Abel Shenom , Stephen Obi, and Daniel Attah.
The aggrieved workers dragged the construction company to court for allegedly dismissing them from the company in 2012.
The claimants were also seeking for payment of their severance entitlements, cost of litigation as well as damages for the alleged unlawful dismissal.
At the resumed hearing, the trial could not go on because respondent’s counsel, Mr U.Onyejeke, who held brief for Lawrence Erewele, had a motion seeking to adopt his written address out of time.
The Counsel to the claimant, Miss O.Temi, had expressed displeasure over respondent ‘s delay in filing and adopting his written address.
Temi told the court that the respondent had hitherto employed ways of delaying the progress of case, but said that the claimant would not opposed the application in the interest of fair hearing.
“We have just been served with their motion to file their written address out of time. They have delayed this matter so much. We have filed our own written address since June 20 and equally served the respondents on June 25.
“The respondent has employed so many means to delay our case, we are expecting judgment today, but for fair hearing to prevail, we will accept their application,” she said.
She asked for a cost of N100,000, but the court awarded N50,000 against the respondent. (NAN)
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Edited by Felix Nwadioha