Tina Amanda
National Industrial Court sitting in Port Harcourt has fixed 25 May 2023 to resume hearing on a suit filed by suspended Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic Lecturer Zoe Solomon-Tamunotonye against the School Management.
The presiding Judge, Justice Zainab Bashir, gave the adjournment following a request by the parties to reply and respond to processes in the matter.
Zoe Solomon-Tamunotonye, the plaintiff, had approached the court, praying it to compel the Management of Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic to pay him his thirteen months owed salaries and remove the sexual harassment allegations against him.
Solomon-Tamunotonye, who spoke to our correspondent, said he dragged the Management of the Institution to court following what he described as the trial of democracy.
He maintained he is praying the court to order the management of Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic to release the investigative panel report that sat on the matter, insisting that since the investigation, no law enforcement agency nor the school authority has invited or attempted to prosecute him which he claimed is an indication that the allegations against him are false.
Recall the Management of Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnics, Port Harcourt, had on 1 August 2022, through a memo signed by the registrar of the Institution, Chris Woke, suspended Zoe Solomon-Tamunotonye for three months to ascertain his involvement in the alleged sexual harassment of a student of the Institution.
The Management of the Polytechnics also set up an investigative panel to investigate the alleged sexual harassment of the student identified as Blessing Audu.
