Kwara: Court orders Gov Abdulrazaq to pay N17m to sacked provost

An Appeal Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara state capital has ordered Governor AbdulRaman Abdulrazaq to pay N17 million salary arrears to sacked Provost of the state College of Education, Ilorin Prof AbdulRaheem Yusuf. The court also described the removal of Prof Yusuf sometimes in 2018 as illegal, null and void.

Abdulrazaq and four others had appealed against the judgment of an Industrial Court that ordered for the reinstatement of Prof Yusuf as the provost as well as the payment of N17 million salary arrears to him.

Lead counsel to the respondent (Prof Yusuf) Lanre Yahaya had prayed the court to grant his client both principal and alternative reliefs. Nation