BELGORE, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appellant was the plaintiff at the trial court. He served in several strata of government pensionable establishments for twenty-four years and seven months. i.e. Teaching Service, Water Corporation and Property Development Corporation, all statutory bodies of former Western Nigeria, and finally with the University Teaching Hospital, Ibadan, a Federal Government Ministry of Health parastatal for 2 years, five months and twenty seven days from where he retired on 29th day of June, 1979. He claimed he was entitled by way of gratuity to N20,920.73 for the cumulative years of service and that the statutory bodies he served in the old Western Nigeria (and their successors, probably) sent in their contributions as follows:
(i) Federal Government on behalf of former Western Nigeria the sum of N7,845.89; and
(ii) Property Development Corporation the sum of N572.13.
To those sums, the defendant, being his last employer, was to add the sum…