abnormality. Further in Exhibit 13, put forward by the Respondent, a memo dated 29th August, 2016 by the Applicant the crux of it is a plea for review of the process and a reiteration of qualification and skill for the post, whilst stating rumors about the reasons for the alleged abnormality. The Court is seised with evidence of the qualification and skill of the Applicant and the fact that he was a staff of the institution. The fact that the Applicant tried to notify the management as to the necessity of applying Article 14 of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development Staff Rules and Regulations is not lost on the Court. Given the preponderance of evidence, the Court notes that the Respondent did not directly rebut the evidence adduced but submitted Exhibits 15 as their rebuttal. Exhibit 15 is a letter dated 6th June, 2017 from KAPI CONSULT, agents for the recruitment process. This piece of evidence adduced was a claim of the score of the Applicant in the initial stage of the recruitment leading to his disqualification. This was supported during oral testimony to wit: IGWILO: Thank you My Lords. Can you tell My Lords the outcome of the assessment? Thank you Sir. PW1: My Lord, in the first phase of our mission with EBID, as I explained, we produced a report and on the basis of the assessment of the candidates that we have received, we suggested the candidates that has passed for the next stage. And we were surprised to see two years or three years after, a letter from the bank informing us that one of the candidates have suggested that there has been fraud in the mission which we have completed as well as the premature suspension of our 26 | P a g e