application. To succeed under this claim, the Applicant must establish their entitlement to the claim either by exhibiting such provision in the condition of service or a life insurance contract, or any other document to substantiate the provision of a life insurance scheme for the benefit of all the Applicants. This documents will of necessity indicate the value of the insurance. Since any of these documents that are required to prove their case will in the ordinary course of event be in the custody of the Applicant, having failed to exhibit same, The Court finds that the Applicants have not proved their case, and holds that same being unsubstantiated therefore fails. 41. Allegation of non-payment of contributory pension deducted from salary at source: The Applicants claim that the disengaged staffs made contributory pension and are all entitled to be paid back in block. In adducing evidence to support the above claim, Applicants presented on pages 460 to 470 of the originating application a detailed pay slip of 11 Applicants showing deductions from salary under various heads which were abbreviated without any explanation. To prove this claim, the Applicant must establish that 1) they are pensionable staffs who have made such contributions and 2) their entitlement. The fact that the Applicants are former employees of NITEL/MITEL is uncontroverted. The Applicants annexed as evidence a letter to the Executive Secretary of Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) on the 8th of May, 2017 wherein they were directed to submit their documents for monthly pension payment. The Respondent, having admitted and recognized the Applicants’ rights to pension, same need no further proof. However, this claim is extraneous as the payment of pension scheme operative in Nigeria is necessarily dependent on contributions by employees and employers from which life pension benefit was paid. Having made a full analysis of life pension above, this claim being superfluous and irrelevant, fails and the court so holds. 42. Allegation of non-refund of proceeds of the sale of 250 Buses alleged Property of the Applicant sold by the Respondents and valued at 1.2 Billion Naira: 19

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