OLUDOTUN ADEBOLA ADEFOPE-OKOJIE, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the Judgment of the Federal High Court, Kaduna Division, delivered on the 24th February 2014 by Evelyn Anyadike J in an application for judicial review.
The facts leading to the application before the lower Court are that the Appellant was employed by the 1st Respondent on the 23rd day of December 1981 and was sometime in 1989 transferred to its Kaduna Branch, holding as his last office, Manager (Banking). In October 1993, he was issued with a query questioning why he signed cheques above his limits involving the revenue of Kaduna State. He replied, but he was charged before the Miscellaneous Offences Tribunal for causing wrongful loss of revenue to the Kaduna State Government. While the charges were pending before the tribunal, he was served, on 6/6/94, with a letter of dismissal from the service of the 1st Respondent. He was eventually discharged of the offences. Aggrieved, he instituted…