KWARA STATE POLYTECHNIC, ILORIN & IR,
V.
SALIU & OR
ITA G. MBABA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgement of Hon. Justice S. D. Kawu (Acting Chief Judge of Kwara State, as he then was) in suit no. KWS/164/2009, delivered on 17th June, 2010, wherein the learned Acting Chief Judge granted all the reliefs of the respondents (who were claimants at the lower court), and specifically ordered that the Respondents be reinstated in their offices, with all their rights and privileges, from the date of their purported compulsory retirement, and their salaries, emoluments and entitlements paid, from the date of purported compulsory retirement, till date of re-instatement.
In their reliefs, as per the originating summons, the Respondent, had prayed as follow:
(1) "A declaration that the purported compulsory retirement of the claimants convered by letters dated 18th June, 2009 is ultra vires, unlawful, null and void having regard to the terms of the claimants' appointment with the Polytechnic, the Regulation…