[2011]DLHC7885 • April 19, 2011 • High Court
CHANCELLOR OPPONG KYEKYEKU KOHL (PLAINTIFF) vs. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, HON. ISAAC OSEI, OSAFO MARFO, GHANA HIGH COMMISSION, MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND ECON. PLANNING (DEFENDANTS)
The plaintiff, Chancellor Oppong Kyekyeku Kohl, initiated legal proceedings against the Attorney-General and several government officials and entities, alleging wrongful withholding of his University of London LLB first class degree certificate and compensation monies amounting to £254,000.00. He claimed wrongful remand without psychiatric evidence, administrative errors affecting his examination results, and collusion by government officials to withhold his certificate and funds, causing him defamation, hardship, and infringement of his human rights.
read moreThe Plaintiff caused a writ of summons to be issued against the Defendants jointly and severally as follows: “a. Declaration that government of Ghana is vicariously liable for all the wrongful acts committed by the Defendants in their official positions while in government against the Plaintiff. b. Declaration that the British Authorities did pay the sum of £254,000.00 compensation to the Ghana High Commission and the Ghana Government for onward transmission to the Plaintiff herein somewhere on 15th November 2003. c. Declaration that the British Authorities of the University of London gave LLB degree certificate to the Ghana High Commission in London in their official capacities. d. Declaration that a LLB (first class) from the University of London, UK, and a total of £254,000.00 made up of (i) £154,000.00 for wrongful remand for the cumulative period of five months both at Petonville prisons and Maudsley Hospital in London from 30th October 2002 to 29th March, 2003 there wa...