BENJAMIN A. ARYEE AND GHANA COMMERCIAL BANK

INTRODUCTION By a complaint, lodged with this Commission and dated 26 January 1994, Mr. Aryee, a Manager of the Respondent's Derby Avenue Branch between September 1983 and 11 June 1985, alleged that his summary dismissal by the Respondent in 1985 was wrongful, and sought re-instatement into the service of the Respondent. The Respondent maintained that it summarily dismissed Mr. Aryee for having granted unauthorized overdrafts in violation of its rules and regulations. However, Mr. Aryee disputed that he committed an infraction of the Respondent's rules. He instead contended that his dismissal was to punish him for his involvement in a fraud perpetrated against the Respondent by one Mr. George Salami, a customer of the Respondent, even though he himself was cleared of culpability in the fraud. Mr. Aryee further claimed that it was only by a circular from the Managing Director of the Respondent, dated 23 July 1985, after his dismissal, that the Respondent issued instructions to branch...