National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has commenced public hearing on six petitions it received from some civil servants who were allegedly unlawfully retired before their actual time of retirement.
The complaints before the commission also indicated that they were not paid their benefits after they were relieved from their jobs.
Speaking Friday during the hearing, Executive Secretary of the commission, Tony Ojukwu said ordinarily, the commission treats cases of loss of labour rights and entitlements on individual basis unless if it is a group nature or it has the character of systemic violation hence it was on that basis that the commission adopted the approach to listen to the complaints on the Ekiti State Civil servants who were compulsorily retired.
He said the cases suggests discrimination, victimzation, lack of due process and unfairness.
Ojukwu urged the petitioners and the representative of the state government to coporate so as to achieve substancial justice.
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