January 2005 but on condition that the plaintiff tendered her resignation to take effect
from the 31st of December
2004 but where
she failed to do so, the letter of dismissal
dated 24 September, 2004 shall remain valid.
60. The defendants also deposed in paragraph 4(xxvii) that following the vacancy in
the post of Director of Administration in the ECOWAS
secretariat the 1st defendant
advertised the vacancy and called for a qualified candidate to fill the vacancy.
The
defendants, further deposed
in paragraph 5 that the 2-4 defendant
has not
submitted their memorandum
on the purported review to the Administration and
Finance
the first procedure
Commission
because
for appeal
for review
was
not
followed as the plaintiff has not requested for the review of the sanction of retirement
as requested.
61. And that there was no limitation of time within which the 2°4 and 34 defendants
shall make
submission
of the memorandum
to the Administration
and
Finance
Commission as the Administration and Finance Commission had not met since the
beginning of the year.
When these depositions by the plaintiff are examined and
given their proper placement for the consideration of the conditions for a grant of
interlocutory injunction, the following issues are clearly discernible from the said
facts:
That the affidavits of the plaintiff if weighed against the facts deposed in the counter
affidavits and further counter affidavits of the defendant, there is no doubt that serious
issues have been raised that cannot be resolved by affidavit evidence but full trial of the
issues,
62. While an application of this nature, does not involve a final determination of the
merits, it does involve the exercise of a sound discretion.
The complaint of the plaintiff was that the 1st defendant violated her right of appeal
after the sanction of dismissal and that no amount of monetary compensation can be
adequate.
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