SAMUEL OSEI YAW AND UNIVERSITY OF GHANA

Mr. Samuel Osei Yaw, the petitioner herein was employed by the University of Ghana as a Soil Research Assistant Grade II in 1968. He worked with the University Volta Basin Research Project until he retired in 1987 as a Principal Research Assistant. The facts of petitioner's case are very simple. By letter dated 30th December, 1970 petitioner was informed that to qualify for promotion, he was required to sit promotion examinations which were normally held during the Easter vacation. He was informed by the letter that arrangements would be made for him to sit for the examinations and that should he satisfy the examinations, his promotion would "take effect from next October". According to petitioner he could not sit for the examination in 1971 because he was sent "to the field with the students to complete soil mapping". He said he was promised by the Chairman of the VBRP that because the delay in writing his examinations was the result of "pressure of official duties," his promotion...