COURTROOM DRAMA! Sacked CBN Workers Reject ‘Zoom Trial’; Demand to Face Bank Chiefs in Person as Legal Battle Over Job Losses Gets Heated!

The legal war between the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and its former workers has taken a strange turn, and it all comes down to a computer screen. A group of ex-staff members, who lost their jobs during the bank’s recent massive “clean-up,” are now begging a judge to stop the CBN from turning their trial into a virtual meeting.

The CBN recently filed an application asking the court to let everyone stay home and conduct the case over the internet. The bank says this is for security and to make things move faster. But the former workers aren’t buying it. They believe the bank is just trying to hide or slow down the wheels of justice.

“We want to see them eye-to-eye,” one of the affected staff members said outside the court. Their lawyers are arguing that a case this important dealing with the livelihoods of hundreds of Nigerians shouldn’t be done on a “laptop” where technical glitches can happen. They want the bank’s bosses to stand in the witness box in a real courtroom.

These workers are currently suing the CBN because they claim they were fired without following the proper rules. They want their jobs back and they want to be paid for the “emotional trauma” of being sacked so suddenly.

The judge now has a tough decision to make: should the trial of the century for these bankers happen on a physical stage or via a link? For now, the ex-staff are making it clear—they aren’t afraid of a face-to-face showdown.