SIDI DAUDA BAGE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal by the Appellant, Defendant in the lower Court, against the Ruling of B. I. Molokwu J., sitting at the Ibadan Judicial Division of the Federal High Court, delivered on 22nd September, 2004.
Briefly, the facts culminating in this appeal are as follows:-
1. "The Respondents and the persons on whose behalf they allegedly sued, were in the service of the Nigerian Tobacco Company (NTC), they contributed to the Company's Provident Fund (CPF) monthly and percentage of their respective contributions depended on the salary scale of each worker. The said monthly contributions were in turn invested by the Nigerian Tobacco Company (NTC) in other business with the understanding that on leaving the Company for any reason, they were entitled to collect interest that might have accrued on the contribution together with total contribution they made. The Respondents claimed that it was their employers' practice to call back b…