BONIFACE KWABENA AMANDI AND MOHAMMED WOLLEY, FAWAZI WALLEY, BASSAM KABARA AND ABDUL L. MIKATI

This complaint presents a disturbing set of facts. The plaint was lodged with the Commission on the 31 May 1999 by Boniface Kwabena Amandi (complainant) the Managing Director of Aluminium Enterprises Limited (AEL) a company registered under the laws of Ghana with its registered offices in Tema. The respondents against whom the complainant had his grievance were Mohammed Wolley, Fawazi. Wolley. Bassam Kabara and Abdul L. Mikati. They are Lebanese nationals. The controversy arose in the operation and running of the AEL. The facts narrated in the complaint of May 1999 were that the AEL received a grant of US$6.5 million under the Lome III Convention from the Western African and Caribbean Department of the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the purpose of expanding and modernizing the AEL plant; as a condition EIB officials were sent in to manage the project and supervise the disbursement. Two British consultants initially sent in could not cope with pace of the work and therefore were w...