F.M.C.G. DISTRIBUTION LTD V. NUHU IBRAHIM BONIFACE

OBIETONBARA O. DANIEL-KALIO, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appeal here is over the judgment of the Kano State High Court (the lower Court) presided over by P.A. Mahmoud J (as she then was) delivered on 27/12/14. The Respondent Nuhu Ibrahim Boniface was the plaintiff at the lower Court. He sued FMCG Distribution limited, the Appellant. The Respondents’ case against the Appellant at the lower Court is here summarised. The Respondent was an employee of the Appellant. On 1/3/13 one Mr. Gandhi Anandan the Appellant’s sales and Marketing Director and one Mr. Prem Prakash the Appellant’s regional manager, instructed one Mrs Kechi Uma, one Mr. Onazi and one Mr. Muktar, all employees of the Appellant, not to allow the Respondent leave the Appellant’s regional office at No. 14 Ibrahim Dabo road, Kano. Under restriction of his movement at the said regional office of the Appellant, the Respondent was subjected to repeated threats that he would be handed over to the Police unless h…