Justice M.N. Esowe yesterday adjourned the suit because she was indisposed to proceed with the matter.
Henry Iwelumo, Lukman Kolawole, George, George Omoniyi, Eunice Odey filed the action on behalf of other aggrieved staff of the defunct NICON Airways Ltd against its former managing director Chief Jimoh Ibrahim and Captain Idris Wada.
The court had adjourned the claims against Wada, who is now governor of Kogi State indefinitely.
Justice Esowe had in September, 2013 granted the N843 million claims of the staff against the management.
But a garnishee proceeding instituted by counsel to the staff, Chibuzor Ejike to recover the funds by attaching the accounts of Ibrahim in 19 banks and other companies, has proved unsuccessful.
In the claims of the staff filed in November, 2011, the claimants demanded for the aggregate arrears of salaries, leave allowances, crew/flight allowances, overseas unpaid allowances in US dollars and cumulative unremitted cooperative between 2007 to date.
The claimants had sought a declaration that the management of the airline and its directors are legally bound to remit forthwith to their pension managers, pension deductions from their unremitted salaries between 2007 and April 2011 valued at N16.5 million.
The court also declared that the contract of employment between the staff and the management after the company was acquired majorly by Ibrahim in 2007, is still subsisting for all purposes.
