One of the affected magistrates sought redress at the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, Akure Judicial Division, Akure, with Suit No: NCIN/AK/33/2017, having the state JSC and Acting Chief Judge as defendants. The claimant, Iretiolu Wemimo Dada, in a statement of material facts to the court, claimed in her reliefs that her appointment letter dated November 2013 as Chief Magistrate Grade II was valid, legal and subsisting. Alongside others who kicked against the suspension and cried foul, Dada sought an order setting aside the letter of suspension, describing it as wrongful, invalid and void. Meanwhile, the JSC Secretary, Mr. Odubira Egbunu, who signed the suspension letter, had told The Guardian that action of JSC was an exercise to sanitize the system and not to victimize anyone. They had thought they would just do it with impunity and nobody could query them; the criticism is getting stiffer by the day,” she said.

Source: The Guardian November 25, 2017 04:07 UTC