JOHN INYANG OKORO, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal; Calabar Division delivered on the 21st day of May, 2009 wherein the Court below allowed the appeal of the 1st - 15th Respondents [who were appellants at the Court below] and set aside the judgment of the Trial Federal High Court sitting in Uyo. As can be gleaned from the record of appeal, a summary of the facts giving birth to this appeal may be stated as follows:-
The 1st - 15th Respondents are security personnel who were engaged to secure the properties of the Appellant. At various times, the 1st - 15th Respondents responded to the Appellant's advertisement for recruitment into the security unit of the Appellant as spy Police Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited. They took the qualifying examination conducted by the Appellant and were selected for interview by the Appellant.
Upon their success at the interview, they were offered employment into the security unit of …