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BY Abdulgafar Oladimeji.
A Nigerian industrial court, Wednesday ordered the minister of agriculture, Mohammed Sabo Nanono to refrain from adopting a self-help method in resolving the leadership crisis engulfing the Federal College of Agricultural Produce Technology, FACP, Kano.
The presiding judge, justice I S. Galadima in an order issued by his court sitting in Abuja Judicial Division had mandated all the parties involved in the crisis to maintain the status quo, pending the determination of the substantive suit filed before the court.
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Academic Staff Union of colleges of Agriculture(ASUCA) and Non-Academic staff union had filed a suit before the court challenging the appointment of one Dr. Mohammed Yusha’u Gwaram as the substantive provost of the school.
The plaintiff in an originating summons made available to journalists in Kano on Thursday had told the court that the minister of Agriculture, Mohammed Sabo Nanono lacks the jurisdiction to appoint Gwaram as the substantive provost of the school.
They urged the court to declare the appointment of Gwaram as an outright contravention of labour laws and an infringement on the laid down procedures that regulate such appointments.
The aggrieved members of staff of the school in a motion Ex-Parte dated August 25th and filed on 31st August 2020, urged the court to issue an order refraining the alleged substantive provost from assuming office.
Justice Galadima in an enrolled court order dated no NICN/ABJ//227/2020 dated September 2nd, 2020, said “ It is hereby ordered thus, an order, all parties to refrain resorting to self-help, forthwith, I so declare.”
“the motion on notice shall be determined by the substantive judge on a date to be given upon resumption from vacation.” The court said.
The other defendants in the suit are, Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria and Nigeria Stored Research Products Institute.
