The West African regional court, ECOWAS Court of Justice, has ordered the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay the arrears of the salaries of 244 soldiers who were dismissed from service in 2016.
A summary of the verdict released by the court’s information department on Friday stated that the judgment delivered on Thursday.
The court, on Thursday, delivered a supplementary judgment in which it reviewed the earlier May 15, 2019 verdict to include the order for the payment of the dismissed soldiers their entitlements, which was committed in the said previous verdict. In the judgment which was delivered by Justice Keikura Bangura, the court held that the decision to review the earlier judgment after listening to the parties to the parties in the case and considered the documents tendered.Issuing the fresh order, the court said “the judgment of the court in ECW/CCJ/JUD/21/19 delivered on May 15, 2019, is hereby supplemented with an additional paragraph no ”.
“The court did not omit to give a decision on reinstatement of the applicants in the original judgment,” the court ruled.
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