Court to hear suit against labour today

The National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja will, this morning, hear the motion on notice brought by the Federal Government through the Attorney-General of the Federation seeking to stop the organised labour from embarking on strike to express its grievances over the removal of fuel subsidy. The matter was to come up last Thursday but the respondents, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), were neither in court nor represented by any counsel.The editor of The Sun newspaper and a reporter are also expected to appear before the court today to defend a publication which the court described as a dent on the judiciary.

The court had earlier granted a motion ex-parte stopping organised labour from embarking on mass protest, rallies and strike, an order which was not complied with.

At the last adjourned date, counsel for the Federal Government, Adegboyega Awomolo, told the court that in obedience to the order of the court earlier made,the claimant had served the respondents through some national dailies and that an affidavit had been deposed and filed to that effect.

The court, however, observed that the claimant did not fully comply with the court's order by placing the service in two national newspapers instead of three as ordered by the court.

The panel of three justices headed by the president of the court, Justice B.A. Adejumo, held that the motion on notice could not be heard without the claimant complying fully with the order of the court as to substituted service.

Counsel for the claimant later sought the leave of the court to replace the process of substituted service in The Guardian but also pleaded that should there be difficulty with the Guardian, the court should allow it place it in either Leadership or Daily Trust.

Earlier, the president of the court had commented on the publication in the The Sun of Saturday,January 7, 2012 where it was written that the order of injunction granted by the court was procurred by the Attorney-General of the Federation and that the court was a black market.

He, therefore, summoned the editor and the reporter of the newspaper to appear before it to prove how the order was procured and the court as a black market.
The court, however, granted the order made by the claimant to re-publish the processes including the summons to appear before it.







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