Appeal Court Reinstates Mohamed Dauda As NIA Boss
EkoHotBlog reports that the Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, has reinstated Mohammed Dauda as the Director General (DG) National Intelligence Agency (NIA).
The court also awarded the sum of N1 million to the dismissed DG against the NIA.
The judge held that Dauda should be allowed to retire in service in accordance with the stipulated laws and resolved all the contentious issues against NIA in favour of the respondent.
Justice Ige held that, there is no evidence before the court that shows that the respondent has constituted any risk or breached any law and further held that, “The appellant’s appeal is hereby dismissed for lacking in merit and the Industrial Court judgment is hereby affirmed”.
Earlier, the National Industrial Court in Abuja had ordered the reinstatement of Mohammed Dauda as the head of the National Intelligence Agency and payment of salaries and entitlements from March 2018 till date, after it found that his dismissal fell short of the NIA Act.
In the judgment delivered by Justice Olufunke Anuwe, it was held that, under the Agency’s rule, the appropriate committee to investigate disciplinary cases against management staff is the management staff disciplinary committee, “not the special management staff disciplinary committee”.
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