HARRISON EDWARD NARTEY MARTIN vs. BARCLAYS BANK OF GHANA LIMITED

ADUAMA OSEI Harrison Edward Nartey Martin, who shall hereafter be called “the Plaintiff”, had been resident in Germany since 1978. In 1990, he opened a foreign exchange account, with account number 1135011, with the High Street branch of Barclays Bank of Ghana Limited, which shall hereafter be called “the Defendant”. As alleged in the Plaintiff’s statement of claim, between the years 1990 and 1994, he deposited the sums of DM 14,000.00 and US$900.00 into the said account through his bankers in Germany. He however withdrew DM 1,000.00 from the account subsequently. On a visit to Ghana in 2006, he tried to ascertain the status of the account but was told by officials of the Defendant bank that no record of the payments he had made into the account could be traced. After making several demands, without success, for his account to be credited with the payments he claimed he had made, the Plaintiff, on the 13th of April, 2011, caused a writ of summons with a statement of claim at...