FEDERAL CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY & ORS V. DR. CHARLES NZELU & ANOR

ABUBAKAR DATTI YAHAYA, J.C.A.(Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal arose from the judgment of the High Court of Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, delivered on the 29th day of April 2011 in Suit No.FCT/HC/CV/382/09.

The claims of the respondents who were the plaintiffs at the trial court, in the joint Amended Statement of claim, are: -

(a) A declaration that the plaintiffs having been re-instated are entitled to all the financial benefits and promotions attached to their offices as staff of the 1st Defendant which they were deprived of from the dates of their purported disengagement and or retirement in 2006 till the date they assume duties.

(b) An order of this Honourable Court directing the payment of the financial benefits and other entitlements due to the plaintiffs from the day they were compulsorily disengaged and/or retired till the date they finally assume duties.

(c) An order of this Honourable Court directing the defendants to promote the plaintiffs to the salary gra…