TIMARIV Disbandment: Court Fixes Nov 4 For Mention Of Suit

A Port Harcourt High Court in Rivers State, presided over by Justice S.C Amadi, has adjourned the suit on the disbandment of the state transport marshall, otherwise called TIMARIV to the 4th November, 2015 for mention.
The court took the decision due to its inability to take the matter on Tuesday when it was selected for the day on te order of the paper of the court for mention.
A private law firm, Barrister Nwaugha & Co, had dragged the state government to a state High Court following the decision of the government to scrap the TIMARIV as well as sack of its staff from work.
Addressing journalists at the Judiciary complex, a representative of the law firm, Barr Chigozie Emem, said they were in court simply to ask the state government to reinstate the sacked TIMARIV workers as well as pay them the backlog of their 10 months salary.
The legal practioner condemned the approach employed by the state government to disband the workers adding that such measure was not in conformity with the laws establishing the agency.
According to him, a body established by law cannot be abolished without reference to the law itself adding  that due process was not followed in the disbandment of the Agency by the state government.
“The state government ought to have gone back to the House of Assembly that made law establishing them before the disbandment.
“We are not happy with the process and our prayer is simply pay them their 10 months salary arrears and reinstate them”, he stated.