KODWO AGYEMAN T. GYAN AND C.E.P.S.

THE FACTS: The complainant is a Principal Collector with the respondent institution. On the 31 January 2000, he lodged a verbal complaint against his transfer from Tema to Accra barely five months after his transfer from Accra to Tema. He gave a catologue of transfers which he had been subjected to, and concluded. That they had been punitive and calculated to destabilize him and his family. He consequently appealed to the Commission to restrain the Management of the respondent institution from carrying out the latest transfer. The respondent on its part denied the allegation that the transfers were meant to harass the complainant, and explained that it is the result of a general policy to move its officers in the mainstream customs to different location after a maximum of four (4) years at a station or collection. This policy, it further explained was to ensure that officers acquire critical and varied experience that spans the broad spectrum of customs operations The respondent st...