Come 18th November 2008, all other things being equal, the following suits ID/1216/06 ADELENU VS C.J. LAGOS & ORS, ID/1217/06 S.M. JAGUN VS C.J. LAGOS & ORS., ID/1218/06 ALHAJA F. OSHODI VS C.J. LAGOS & ORS., ID/1219/06 SEGUN OMOBOYE VS C.J. LAGOS & ORS., ID/1220/06 B.A. LAWAL VS C.J. LAGOS & ORS. will come up for hearing in Honourable Justice Oyefeso's court at the Ikeja High Court. All the claimants in the above mentioned suits are leaders of the Lagos State Branch of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria who were relieved of their jobs by the administration of the first defendant after being accused of calling out workers in protest against the invasion of the court premises by certain security and paramilitary men said to be on a mission to detect certain fraud and apprehend touts in the open Registry of the Ikeja High Court.
The five cases, we learnt are in different stages of progress before Oyefeso J. For example while the claimant in suit no ID/1216/06 is yet to even open his case in suit no ID/1218/06, the case has reached the final address stage.
In suits no ID/1219/06 and ID/1220/06 the claimants have opened their cases while the claimant in suit no ID/1218/06 has closed her case, making it ripe for the defendants to open their case. The Squib reliably gathered further progress in the hearing of the cases was stalled by the action of the 1st defendant of recalling the case files from the trial judge around August 2008.
Thus in September 2008, when the cases came up there were no files for the trial court to work with and so the cases were adjourned to the 18 November 2008. If the accounts of certain upper layer geckos are anything to go by, then new counsel different from the chambers of the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice Lagos State will henceforth represent the 1st defendant in the cases.
According to the geckos, the defendant had become uncomfortable with the Attorney-General's Chambers when counsel from the Ministry opined that in the circumstances of the case, it might be better for the parties to explore amicable settlement of the dispute; a situation the 1st defendant found highly unpalatable.
The first defendant, to wit, the Chief Judge of Lagos State is said to be considering the service of the chambers of the legal firm of Afe Babalola &Co, as an alternative to the Ministry of Justice, Alausa, Lagos State.
The claimants on the other hand said to be are sticking with their own counsel and are desirous of speedy determinations of their suits, preferably before the 1st quarter of next year.
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