KEYSTONE BANK PLC V. KASSIM YIGGON

JIMI OLUKAYODE BADA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal emanated from the Judgment of the Adamawa State High Court, Yola in SUIT NO. ADSY/5/04: KASSIM YIGGON V. HABIB NIG. BANK LTD. (NOW KEYSTONE BANK PLC), delivered on the 8th day of June, 2005 wherein the trial Judge found in favour of the Respondent.

Briefly, the facts of the case are that the Respondent i.e the Plaintiff at the lower Court, by a Writ of Summons dated 30/1/2004, claimed the following reliefs against the Appellant i.e the Defendant at the lower Court.

"1. A declaration that the purported dismissal of the plaintiff as a staff of the Defendant Bank vide letter of 2nd October, 2003 in all circumstance of the case is unlawful, invalid, illegal, wrongful and void.

2. The sum of (N749.882,51) Seven Hundred and Forty Nine Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Two Naira Fifty One Kobo only, being the Plaintiff's balance of staff provident Scheme (SPF) as at October, 2003.

3. The sum of (N99.950.76) Ninety-Ni…