The National Industrial Court (NIC) on Thursday restrained the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) from taking any form of disciplinary action against the members of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN).
Justice Peter Lifu gave the order when he delivered a ruling in an ex parte application by the association in Abuja.
The court restrained the defendants, its agents, servants, privies, officers from suspending, terminating, dismissing, retiring the claimant, pending the determination of the motion on notice before the court.
It also restrained the defendant from taking any form of disciplinary action, inordinate or otherwise capable of tampering with the contract of service of the applicants.
Lifu said the claimant must make an undertaking to pay damages to the defendant “if it is found out that this order of interim injunction was not supposed to be granted.
The ASCSN had in an ex parte application urged the court to restrain the NIMC from suspending or terminating the appointments of the claimant.
The claimant also wanted the court to restrain NIMC from taking any form of disciplinary action capable of tampering or negatively affecting members of ASCSN.
NAN also recalls that the staff have been protesting the recent sack of hundreds of NIMC staff.
The claimant’s Counsel, Mr Promise Asikpo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the matter was brought to court because of the dispute between the union and the NIMC.
Asikpo said there had been several attempts to tamper with the appointment of the claimants which the “Ministry of Labour has restrained them and we have all the facts in court’’