HON. JUSTICE ABDU ABOKI, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the Judgment of Justice J. Adah of the Federal High Court, Abuja delivered on the 28th of June 2004, dismissing the claim of the Plaintiff/Appellant, and granting in part the Counter-claim of the Defendant/Respondent by ordering the Plaintiff/Appellant to vacate the Defendant/Respondent's Staff Quarters within three days of the Judgment.
The facts of this appeal are briefly stated as follows: The Appellant was an employee of the Defendant/Respondent as a Senior Manager, Transport and Travels office in the Administration Department at Abuja, on Central Bank of Nigeria Salary Scale 04. By a letter dated 18/4/99, the Plaintiff/Appellant was placed on Suspension without pay for alleged grave misconduct. By another letter dated 19/8/99 which was delivered to him on 23/8/99 the Plaintiff/Appellant was given a query in which he was requested to explain to the satisfaction of the Director of Personne…