- Having regard to the Ruling no: ECW/CCJ/RUL/10/15 dated 3rd December
2015, delivered by this Honourable Court
As to the merit of the case
Facts and procedure
1. Having regard to the exhibits filed, in the present procedure, which revealed
that during the course of the year 2005, the National Commission of Sierra – Leone
on privatisation proposed the liquidation of Sierra National Airlines Ltd, to the
Government of Sierra Leone;
2. On 5th April 2006, the said liquidation was ordered by the Government; and
this decision was adopted by the Parliament on 26th September 2006. Following
this adoption, the Sierra - Leone Airports Authority inherited equipment and
machines, which belonged to the Sierra National Airlines, on the condition that the
former shall absorb 73 workers of the latter.
3. On 24th September 2010, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security calculated
both the terminal employment benefits, and the severance pay due to the
Plaintiffs/Applicants, all former workers of the Sierra National Airlines Ltd, and got
a figure of 17.177.644.816, 00 Leones.
4. In the meantime, and especially on 2nd August 2010, the State of Sierra – Leone
effected payments in favour of Plaintiffs/Applicants, on the condition that each
beneficiary shall sign an undertaking that s/he shall not make any further claims.
5. In August 2012, while feeling not satisfied with the settlement that was proposed
to them, Plaintiffs/Applicants decided to take the defendants to court, in Sierra Leone.
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