Recruitment law suit: void says lawyer... Reasonable-HR consultant

Recruitment law suit: void says lawyer... Reasonable-HR consultant By Evelyn Okakwu The law suit filed by four applicants who took part in the immigration exercise in Niger State has been described as null and void with no legal effect. Reacting on the issue during a conversation with Peoples Daily, barrister Samuel Akenpuum, a legal practitioner with Godwin Ogboji and co chambers Abuja  Said the exercise was an academic activity, adding that a case of an abuse of fundamental human rights cannot be determined in a representative capacity. "You are saying that you want compensation for being unjustly treated in an exercise which has already been cancelled. The court does not work on speculations; it works on facts. If u say that there was an exercise and the government has already cancelled the exercise, then where is it before the court to act upon? If the court was to say anything on the exercise now, it will describe it as a mare academic exercise" However, A Human resource activist Bukky Shonibare has described the actions of the applicants as partly reasonable. Also speaking to Peoples Daily on the issue, Bukky said it was very reasonable for government to compensate the families of those who lost their loved ones with the sum of N50 million as requested by the applicants. Nevertheless, she adds that a sum of N I million for each applicant may be hard to attain. She called on the government of Nigeria to do its best to ensure a transformation of labour laws that will reinstate adequate rights and duties of all parties involved in employment proceedings. The applicants Charles Ugwonye, Friday Danlami, Chinedu Onwuka and Samson Ojo had asked the court to declare the recruitment exercise as illegal and restrain the NIS from spending the money realized from it. They also seek a general sum of N1 million for damages to all applicants as well as a sum of N50 million for the families of those who lost their loved ones

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