ABDU ABOKI, PJCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): By a Complaint filed on the 7th of September 2016, the Appellant commenced this suit at the National Industrial Court, sitting at Abuja, seeking the following reliefs:
A DECLARATION that the purported compulsory retirement of the Claimant by the joint and several actions of the defendants, conveyed vide letter with reference NO: AHQ MS/G1/300/226, dated 9th June 2016, and delivered to the Claimant on 10th day of June 2016, is in contravention of all the relevant provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended, the Armed Forces Act, CAP A20 LFN 2004, the Nigerian Armed Forces Harmonized Terms and Conditions of Service 2012, the Manual of Military Laws 2015, the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, other Labour Conventions and all known principles of natural justice, equity and good conscience, consequently the purported retirement of the Claimant, is null, void and of no effect whatsoever.
AN ORDER…