LAFIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT V. THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT NASARAWA STATE THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, NASARAWA STATE EMMANUEL ANZAKU HARUNA ALLU FELICIA ALLU DANIEL NAMO AVU EZEKIEL CHARITY ENVULU AMINA MAGA BAENABAS ANGULU OBILE AKU KASIM AKU ALLU MUSA ATTAH ISA EKKI PHILIP ABIMIKU ABDUL KIGBU PAULINA NASARA RHODA ABOYA BIATU SAMUEL AYOKA SAMUEL JAMES ALLU CHRISTIANA DAUDA AMOS AUDU ALICE KUDU AYAKA THOMAS EMMANUEL AKWADEN YUSUFINA DAVID ANTHONY AFIKU EMMANUEL AKPU DAVID AYA ASHAGABOGO SAMARI MIKA SHEKARAU JAMES AGULE KASSE STEPHEN KUSKO USMAN BASHAYI SUNDAY KUSKO

RHODES-VIVOUR JSC (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The respondents were employed by the Nasarawa State Local Government Service Commission and deployed to Lafia Local Government Council. In 1999, the Governor of Nasarawa State issued a policy statement wherein he directed allunified LocalGovernment staff serving in the various Local Government Councils other than their councils of origin to relocate to their Local Government Councils on their existing ranks and status. Staff of various councils who were not of Nasarawa State origin were directed toremain in the councils where they were working. In compliance with the policy statement, Lafia Local Government Council set up a screening committee to screen its staff (i.e. the respondents and some others). The screening committee identified the respondents as indigenes of Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Council. Acting on thescreening committees report, the respondents were deployed from Lafia Local Government Council to Nasarawa Eggon L…