EDOZIE, JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): In suit No. C/131/85 filed at the Calabar High Court, the appellant as plaintiff claimed against the respondents as defendants reliefs adumbrated in paragraphs 15 and 16 of the 6th amended statement of claim as follows:-
“15(a) That the panel of enquiry constituted by the secretary to the Military Government and Head of the Civil Service of the Cross River State to conduct an Administrative Enquiry into the allegations of Administrative and Financial Mismanagement in the Cross River State Newspaper Corporation was incompetent to conduct such inquiry by reason of likelihood of bias on the part of the said panel against the plaintiff.
(b) That the findings and recommendations of the said panel are null and void and of no effect by reasons of the non- compliance and non-observance of the Rules of Natural Justice by the panel in the conduct of the Inquiry and/or that the panel exceed (sic) its jurisdiction in that it heard and received evidence…