The National Industrial Court (NIC) has ordered the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, to pay the former Director of Human Resources and Administration in the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mrs. Salamatu Umar-Eluwa, the sum of N2m as damages over her deployment to Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) last year.
The court also granted an order directing Umar-Eluwa to resume her office as Director, Human Resources and Administration in FAAN with immediate effect.
The court declared that Sirika, as a Minister in the sector, lacked the powers to transfer or post anyone out of any parastatal to a sister agency. The court further ordered him to pay the fined sum within 60 days.
The judgment was delivered last Thursday in Abuja by Justice Zaynab M. Bashir.
The court also said that there was no provision in the FAAN Act or in the Civil Aviation Act that empowered…
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