REPUBLIC vs. GHANA RAILWAY CORPORATION; EX PARTE APPIAH AND ANOTHER

JUDGMENT OF TWUMASI J. The matter before this court involves the Ghana Railway Corporation and two members of the senior staff of the corporation. They are Joseph Emmanuel Appiah, Deputy Chief Internal Auditor and David Armah Annan, Chief Accountant, respectively. These two senior officers say that on 15 August 1981, the corporation reduced their official ranks from deputy chief internal auditor to principal internal auditor in the case of Mr. Appiah, and from chief accountant to deputy chief accountant in the case of Mr. Annan. In Appiah’s case, the reduction in rank was to be operative for a period of two years with effect from 17 August 1981. In the case of Mr. Annan, there was also a consequential order transferring him with immediate effect to the accounts department on special duties. Naturally, these two gentlemen did not take the matter kindly with the corporation because their punishment brought to them not only humiliation and disgrace, but was destined to cause them some.....