CHINENYE ROBINSON
V.
ACCESS BANK PLC & 1 OR

I.S GALADIMA, J.: This Claimant was purportedly an employee of the 1st Defendant bank who was last posted to the Mbaise Branch of the bank. She was employed on 3/6/2010 and was duly confirmed by letter on 2/6/2011. She accordingly performed well as an employee and was eventually tasked with handling over 8,000 accounts whilst working as the only Accounting or Relationship Officer at the said Branch of the 1st Defendant’s bank. Unfortunately, due to bad performance on repayments of some of the loans she had accordingly approved to some customers, the 1st Defendant placed her on “recovery suspension” without salary pending her recovery of all such loans. She allegedly made efforts to ensure the repayments of all outstanding loans yet the 1st Defendant went ahead to dismiss her from her employment “unlawfully and maliciously”. The 1st Defendant admitted dismissing her from the service of the Bank stating that it was necessary so to do in view of the infractions she was found to have alle…