BREAKING: Court Sacks MC Oluomo
The former chairman of the NURTW in Lagos, MC Oluomo has lost his appointment as the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) sitting in Lagos voided the Lagos State government’s appointment of a caretaker committee for managing parks and garages.
Justice Maureen Esowe ordered the reinstatement of the operations of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) in Lagos State.
The Lagos parks management committee has MC Oluomo as its chairman, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu (AIG Rtd) as Government Liaison Officer, Alh Sulyman B. Ojora as Deputy Chairman, to mention a few.
The judge held that the state government’s suspension of the national union’s operations and setting up of a caretaker committee was illegal and unconstitutional.
She held that the government and the Police should have intervened by arresting and prosecuting those behind any fracas purportedly involving union members and not inquiring into the dispute.
The court also restrained the state government from further interfering in the operations of the union’s exco.
It ordered the police to refrain from intimidating the union’s officers, to remove all barricades it imposed around their secretariat and to grant them unfettered access to their offices.
