The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) to pay its former employee, Professor...
The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development to pay its former employee, Professor Joseph Adelegan $75,000 as damages for the unfair termination of his employment.
The plaintiff was ordered to return all properties of the bank in his possession or issued to him while in the defendant’s employment In the suit, marked: ECW/CCJ/APP/40/17 filed for the plaintiff by his lawyer, Femi Adedeji, on the 22nd of November 2017, it was claimed that EBID, an institution of ECOWAS established by the provisions of the ECOWAS Revised Treaty as amended, arbitrarily terminated Prof. Adelegan’s appointment and denied him the right to fair hearing.
He had asked the court to declare the termination of his appointment as arbitrary and that the process breached his right to fair hearing. He also sought orders to be reinstated and for the defendant to pay his salary arrears from May 2017, his entitlements and other benefits among other reliefs.
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