TRENDING: SACKED ERSTWHILE ACTING NIA DG GET REINSTATED BY COURT

The National Industrial Court Abuja Division has ordered the reinstatement of the sacked National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador Mohammed Dauda.

Dauda, was in 2018, dismissed from office as the acting Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) but has however, being reinstated as the substantive director in the agency.

The Industrial Court, in its ruling on Thursday, reinstated Ambassador Dauda and directed the defendants to pay him, the sum of One Million naira (#1m).

Dauda, who was not satisfied with his dismissal on March 6, 2018, had sought for redress at the Industrial Court by challenging his dismissal.

On Thursday, 15 October, 2020, the Industrial Court decided in his favour and also awarded one million naira against the defendant.

In the suit marked: NICN/ ABJ/136/2018, Dauda had asked the court to determine whether the procedure adopted by the defendants in the case leading to his purported dismissal is in compliance with Article 8(1) and (2) of the National Securities Agency Act (CAPS 278) 1986.

He also asked the court to determine whether the purported letter of dismissing him issued on March 6, 2018 is not unlawful, null and void and of no effect whatsoever.