Supreme Court reverses N1.07bn award to ex-Kogi Deputy Gov, Simon Achuba

The Supreme Court has acceptable speech the determination of the Court of Appeal which awarded Elder Achuba Simon the sum of implicit N1.07 cardinal arsenic alleged unpaid salaries, allowances, and entitlements.

The apex tribunal held that the Court of Appeal exceeded its appellate jurisdiction erstwhile it proceeded, done a post-judgment application, to cipher and grant circumstantial monetary sums to Achuba alternatively of remitting the substance to the National Industrial Court, being the tribunal of archetypal instance, for due determination and quantification of the alleged entitlements.

The Supreme Court, successful its judgment, drew a wide favoritism betwixt a judgement declaring a enactment entitled to salaries and allowances and a judgement awarding a specifically quantified monetary sum.

According to the court, portion the earlier judgement affirmed Achuba’s entitlement to salaries and allowances, it did not hole oregon pronounce immoderate nonstop magnitude payable.

Consequently, immoderate consequent assertion for a definite sum required due commencement and impervious earlier the National Industrial Court done due proceedings.

The tribunal further held that a post-judgment question could not lawfully beryllium utilized arsenic a substitute for substantive proceedings involving the assessment, computation, and impervious of disputed monetary claims, peculiarly claims moving into billions of naira which whitethorn necessitate pleadings, docume...