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WHERE AN ENACTMENT GIVES POWER TO APPOINT, IT INCLUDES POWER TO REMOVE

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The law is trite that where an enactment confers a power or impose a duty, the power may be exercised and the duty shall be performed from time to time as occasion demands. It is also a common position of the law that where an enactment confers power to appoint a person, that power includes the power to remove or suspend and power to make subsidiary legislation or regulation includes power exercisable in the like manner. See Sections 10, 11 and 12 of the Interpretation Act, CAP.123 LFN 2007.

— O. Oyebiola, J. Yakubu v. FRCN (2016) – NIC/LA/673/2013

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