MUSIBAU OLATIDOYE ADENIYI V. EJIGBO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

MOJEED ADEKUNLE OWOADE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of A.O. Ogunlade J. delivered on 03/07/2009 at the Ejigbo Judicial Division of the High Court of Osun State.

The appellant who was Plaintiff at the Court below was an employee of the Respondent. The Appellant was an Assistant Executive Officer and was assigned as a payment voucher clerk attached to the Primary Health Centre (PHC) of the Ejigbo Local Government. The respondent alleged that the appellant defrauded it to the tune of Five Hundred and Twenty-Seven Thousand, One Hundred and Eighty-Nine Naira, Forty-four Kobo (N527, 189.44K) by manipulation of payment vouchers and collection of some staff salaries. This was denied by the appellant. The respondent after issuing the appellant with a query on the missing money set up a five man "panel of inquiry to investigate the allegation of stealing against Mr. M.O. Adeniyi, an Assistant Executive Officer (Account) on Grade Level 06 with…