their salaries to which they built canteens across the 36 states of the federation.
That the said canteens were sold by the Respondent with no compensation paid to
the Applicants.
7. That most of the landed properties in which the said NITEL/MTEL were situate
across the states belonged to some of the Applicants and same was sold by the
Respondent without compensating the Applicants despite repeated demands.
That the Supreme Court’s decision for the Applicant’s to be paid 5 years pension
buy out is unconstitutional and contrary to international laws of human rights. That
the acts of the Respondent in failing to pay to the Applicants all their entitlements
amounts to a flagrant violation of their human rights.
8. WHEREUPON THE APPLICANTS SEEK THE FOLLOWING RELIEFS/ORDERS:
1. A DECLARATION, that 5 years pension buyout, Respondent paid to the
Applicants as their entitlement, is a flagrant violation of a continuous right of
the Applicants to section 173, 1,2,3, & 210 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria
and the Articles mentioned above which provide for life pension to the
Applicants and other entitlements.
2. A DECLARATION that the purported request by the Pension Transmission
Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) agent of the Respondent, requesting the
Applicants to submit their documents for a monthly payment of pension
without other entitlement claims of the Applicants herein pleaded in this
application is a flagrant violation of their rights as provided in sections 173,
1, 2, 3 & 210 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria and the Articles mentioned
above.
3. A DECLARATION that the Applicants’ are entitled to 200 Billion Naira only, as
their pensionable retirement benefit payable in bulk since the NITEL/MTEL
have being sold by the Respondent who employed the Applicants as workers
under permanent and pensionable conditions of service as provided in
section 173, 1, 2, 3 & 210 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, and not only
monthly pension as prescribed by the Respondent.
4. A DECLARATION that the Applicants are entitled to be paid their federal
mortgage contribution fund deducted at source by the Respondent from
their salary when in active service of the Respondent.
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