The Court of Appeal has faulted the payment of either severance allowance, pension or gratuity to political office holders and political appointees, insisting that the practice was morally wrong.
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The Court of Appeal, Abuja said this in a judgment on an appeal marked: CA/A/810/2017 filed by the Governor of Kogi State and three others.
The appeal was against Justice Hastrup’s decision to order parties to file pleadings rather than delivery judgment after taking arguments on the originating summons and preliminary objection raised by the defendants.
“Yet these office holders insist on being paid severance allowance for holding such offices".
“They are now being subjected to contributory pension schemes in which they contribute part....
“The political appointees and elected public office holders, who do not work as long and as hard as the career civil servants quickly get
“It is not morally right to pay an elected public officer or political appointee
“It cannot be justified in the context of our present social realities it amounts to gross social injustice.”
Justice Agim faulted Justice Hastrup’s decision to
“The reasons the trial court gave for ordering a retrial, by pleading and the oral evidence of witnesses, are that the affidavits of both sides raise substantial issues and....
“These reasons r not correct. There is no substantial dispute of facts between the affidavits of both sides on the factual basis for the action and the reliefs claimed for.
“Both affidavits agree on...
“The respondents herein, as claimants, in their originating summons, claimed for the sum of ”N5,420,000.00 as total of the various...
“The monetary value of each entitlement is particularised in the originating summons. But there Is no evidence, in..
“There is no evidence in the said affidavits showing the allowances or other emoluments the claimants were entitled to by virtue of their appointments.”
Justices Abubakar Datti Yahaya and Tinuade Akomolafe-Wilson, who were also on the panel agreed with the lead judgment...
Other appellants in the case are the Secretary to Kogi State Government, Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice,Kogi State and Kogi State Local Government Service Commission.